Survey: 71% of Startup Founders Sacrifice Private Lives for Work

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And here I thought we all sacrifice private lives for work, startup founders or not.

This is actually really funny. The majority of us (not just tech) definitely sacrifice our private lives for work, to some degree.

How many people say "yes, I sacrifice my personal life work" but in reality don't have much else going on / a different alternative?

I have a young friend, been trying to be a co-founder/entrepreneur for about 3 years now and he's 22.

He can easily fall into this category. "I hang out with my friends less, I am less interested in romantic partners because I want to focus on business. I spend less time getting into trouble and more time focusing on my business"

That number seems low.

Yeah most definitely. Literally, me and all the founders I know have this constant struggle. While its a small sample size I would still have estimated it to be upwards of 80%

I wonder how that compares to business owners more generally; I would assume there's not that much specific about "startups" here.

And the other 29% don't make it

Any data to support this?

It might be the other way around. The 29% may contain a higher share of experienced serial founders who are able to focus on the right things and don't need to sacrifice their family lives anymore for startup #5.

If you read the article it actually implies the opposite, saying those founders who don't maintain family / friends burnout.

Depends on how you define “make it”

But usually the number is a lot lower.

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