Dealing with Founder Burnout
Dealing with Founder Burnout
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Altman addresses the challenge of burnout for startup founders, acknowledging its harsh reality. He stresses the importance of perseverance and having a support network, while noting that traditional advice like taking a vacation often falls short for those deeply invested in their startups.
Transcript
"question on the last lecture before we start um this isn't really the last lecture but another question online is uh how do you deal with burnout while still being effective and remaining effective yeah sure um so the question is how you deal with burnout as a Founder uh this the answer to this is just that it sucks and you keep going um unlike a student where you can sort of like throw up your hands and say you know what I'm really burned out I'm just going to like get bad grades this quarter uh one of the hard Parts about running a startup is that it's real life and um you just have to get through it uh the canonical advice is like go on vacation or whatever um that never works for Founders it's sort of all consuming in this way it's very difficult to understand so what you do is you just keep going um you rely on people uh it's like really important and founder depression is the serious thing and you need to have the support network um but the way through burnout is just to address the challenges address the things that are going wrong and you'll eventually uh feel better all right so last week we or last lecture we covered"
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