6 days / 16 hours or 7 days / 14 hours still leaves time for a normal sleep schedule.
Many of the people in our YC batch were doing this for the duration of the batch. My cofounder and I both have families and managed to make a similar schedule work (with more peaks and valleys).
The last few weeks have been a crunch where I’ve been getting a lot closer to a true 140ish. That is unsustainable and I’ve had to go into it knowing that the price is future productivity.
But as a student with no commitments, 100hrs a week feels like the norm in YC startups right now.
Many of the people in our YC batch were doing this for the duration of the batch. My cofounder and I both have families and managed to make a similar schedule work (with more peaks and valleys).
The last few weeks have been a crunch where I’ve been getting a lot closer to a true 140ish. That is unsustainable and I’ve had to go into it knowing that the price is future productivity.
But as a student with no commitments, 100hrs a week feels like the norm in YC startups right now.