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🗓️ 15 July 2025
⏱️ 14 minutes
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The PBD Podcast reacts to a VC who says five-day weeks will never build billion-dollar startups. The guys debate the 996 work culture, startup sacrifice, momentum, and whether work-life balance is a myth when chasing something great.
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0:00.0 | VC behind 996, work culture debate says five-day weeks won't build billion-dollar startups. |
0:10.2 | Look what he says here. |
0:11.5 | Pretty wild, Rob. |
0:12.2 | You have a video on this? |
0:13.2 | I do. |
0:13.6 | So the actual statement that you're going to read from the story is from this LinkedIn post. |
0:19.0 | But then I also found a video from this gentleman from |
0:22.3 | August that we can play. It's about him starting his podcast and the same, the same strategy |
0:27.9 | applies to the podcast building as this post. Does he, does he say that in the video or no? |
0:32.4 | Here, I'll show you the video first. Okay, go for it. So I'll read this here, venture capitalist, |
0:37.4 | Henry, Harry, oh, this is the one? |
0:39.3 | Yes, sir. Go for it. What do you think were the traits that allowed you to be so successful? |
0:44.7 | Honestly, just unwavering persistence. I've worked for 10 years for seven days a week. Every single |
0:50.2 | weekend I'm in the studio, every single one. And everyone just gives up. With content, everyone expects an ROI sooner than it comes. |
0:57.0 | But in the venture business, in like business content, you're not going to know for 18 months if you are really working at all. |
1:03.0 | We did 300 shows before we got a thousand plays. |
1:07.0 | For two years, I didn't make a dollar. |
1:09.0 | Never planned to make a dollar. |
1:10.0 | But everyone quits before. |
1:12.1 | This is a game of who can survive the longest. |
1:14.4 | So seven days a week is a required velocity to win right now. |
1:18.5 | When you go to the Valley now and when you go to China now, |
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