We work a 4-day week and just raised $4.75m (2012)
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We work a 4-day week and just raised $4.75m (2012)
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Re: We work a 4-day week and just raised $4.75m (2012)
#2Over the summer I extended a lot of weekends with a days holiday and so ended up working a lot of 4 day weeks.
Surprisingly, I found that my productivity really didn't drop that much. I went into a week with a sense that I only had 4 days to get stuff done, and so often felt much more focused. It's only an extra day, but somehow in my head a 5 day week feels almost endless. The suddenly it's Friday and you wonder what happened...
Re: We work a 4-day week and just raised $4.75m (2012)
#3If I would work on my startup I just want to work on it... Thats what is giving me fun.
Also if you work with external people this will communicate with you every workday. Just ignoring them on a workday is not easy.
But I like the concept... Once profitable :-)
Re: We work a 4-day week and just raised $4.75m (2012)
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Re: We work a 4-day week and just raised $4.75m (2012)
#5I worked at StreetEasy for 3 years (helping lead the dev team and writing lots of code) when it was a fast growing startup and we didn't work a 4 day week, but we worked normal business hours (9-5,10-6'ish) and never ever worked weekends - unless you felt like working on some code. One of the co-founders there had the opinion that we were in it for the long haul, not for the sprint, so why burn out early. This seemed to work out well [1].
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-08-19/zillow-paying-50-mi...
Re: We work a 4-day week and just raised $4.75m (2012)
#6"We work a 4-day week a̶n̶d̶ because we just raised $4.75m." I'd love to work a 0-day week on Other People's Money. Not sure I'd write an insufferably smug post bragging about it if I did.
[edit] Just noticed that this is a two-year old blog post and the first comment on it refers to "smug HN trolling" so more fool me.
Re: We work a 4-day week and just raised $4.75m (2012)
#7"We work a 4-day week a̶n̶d̶ because we just raised $4.75m." I'd love to work a 0-day week on Other People's Money. Not sure I'd write an insufferably smug post bragging about it if I did. [edit] Just noticed that this is a two-year old blog post and the first comment on it refers to "smug HN trolling" so more fool me.
Ryan has been posting here about his 4-day work week for a while, and I'm guessing it started before raising the $4.75m. That would contradict your assessment, though I hope someone can fact check the timing for me.
Re: We work a 4-day week and just raised $4.75m (2012)
#8Blog about it when you work a 4-day week and _earn_ $4.75m/yr.
Re: We work a 4-day week and just raised $4.75m (2012)
#9"We work a 4-day week a̶n̶d̶ because we just raised $4.75m." I'd love to work a 0-day week on Other People's Money. Not sure I'd write an insufferably smug post bragging about it if I did. [edit] Just noticed that this is a two-year old blog post and the first comment on it refers to "smug HN trolling" so more fool me.
Ryan has been posting here about his 4-day work week for a while, and I'm guessing it started before raising the $4.75m. That would contradict your assessment, though I hope someone can fact check the timing for me.
There's a comment below the article where Ryan says that they have been working four days a week since 2006.
Re: We work a 4-day week and just raised $4.75m (2012)
#10This post is 2 years old. Any reason to resurrect it? My first thought reading through was that treehouse had some recent layoffs or poor results and this was a "hah, look at you now" post. Thankfully I can't find news like that anywhere.