And feel free to email or @schildkrout me if you have other Q's.

Thanks everyone for a fun hour of discussion. Appreciate the opportunity.

It's been an awesome experience for me. Our friendship has grown far deeper - more honest, more understanding, more fun, way fucking funnier, etc. But we had been best friends for 25 years before this and had done a lot of work that let us thrive even amidst the toughest moments. And there are definitely a lot of…

Well, I'd say you should approach the advice of psychics with skepticism.

cool / thx

haha it was me, my co-founder (and best friend) and that's it.

As for your other question: lots of factors and extremely context dependent. Among the most important contextual elements is your own aspiration. At this moment in your life, what do you truly want? If you want family time: then optimize for that. If you want success or a platform for saying important things to the…

As for nap pods, I believe in nap pods if they are elevated and not visible. Reason being that I think seeing people sleeping reduces awakeness. But gimme a loft space and I love a 20 min power nap.

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Re-reading your Q - sorry if I got it wrong.

We decided to build a company summer 2009. We decided on the idea for @howaboutwe August 2009. We started building December @2009. Launched sign up flow Feb 14 @2010. Raised seed round Feb 2010. Launched full site (with way too many features) April 2010. Seemed reasonable. Were working 7 days a week 18 hours a day.

as for qualities, the obvious I suppose: great brain, deeply pragmatic, clear fair communicator, mature emotionally, fast, fun and positive, lover of internet, etc.

many discussions are remaining in pending. can you fix that?

Depends what you're good at and what you think would make you really happy. We've had a bunch of people join from Goldman/etc in BizDev, Finance, and Customer Acquisition. These are the obvious moves.

Very very hard to start without money. You can get a few people on board by making them founders and offering a lot of equity. Sometimes you can offer equity for cash for a short time for early contractors. But you'll need cash sooner than later to make the ship hum.

they built the internet for that :)

fearless self-reflection, self-criticism, and adaptability.

charge your phone outside your bedroom - rule number 1.

These days you see a lot of companies with 11 to 10 work hours - but on closer investigation people are actually arriving at 1, playing pool for 2 hours, drinking, chillin' - not really doing 10-12 hours of work a day. And the code they're writing often sucks and yields annoying debt down the line. Not always - but…

I believe in work/life balance. And I think a smart balance generates the most productivity.