I’m so tired of the 996 AI startups culture alongside crazy short term unsustainable spikes in growth. I bleeds into investors and creates unhealthy downward pressure for teams to work like their portfolio companies do to “capitalize” on the moment.
I am surprised to see more and more startups (mostly AI ones) equate an "extreme performance culture" with "we stay very late in the office, work on weekends, and many of us live where we work."
Speaking of myself, I have done mediocre work when working nonstop for a long time..