I don't understand how the CEO of a high-growth startup does anything at this level of commitment outside their existing jobs.
I barely understand how CEOs do even the one job.
I barely understand how CEOs do even the one job.
(That is, my hope is that this is good for Stripe, for YC, and for the startups.)
In general, I'm very leery of distracting time commitments, and I don't sit on any boards or anything like that. I think this is a (pretty rare) example of one that makes sense for all parties.
It's probably some combination of having more energy than most people, and being ruthlessly efficient with their time.
Definitely an awe-inspiring quality.
I also don't buy the example of Musk and others, I think we have context as to how much better each of these companies would have run if they had put 110% of their efforts into just one.
Though Jobs was obviously the exception to so many rules.