Ep. 631: When Hustle Culture Becomes Too Much

So of course I don't know the whole thing about it, but I think the clip was good enough.

It was, and I'm trying to pull it up right now.

Her name was Allison something.

She's the, oh, here we go.

She's the founder of Poppy.

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Alison Ellsworth.

So basically someone's interviewing her and she's talking about a conversation she had with another founder and he was like, oh, I do this.

I shut off my work at four o'clock and then I do my cold plunge at this time and then I do this, this.

And he was like telling all these little self-care things he does basically.

And she goes, oh, so when did you have your exit? And he said, oh, I haven't.

And she goes, exactly.

And basically just like the idea of, to me, it was the idea that, oh, if you're building a company, if you're a founder and you are not quote successful yet, if you haven't had a successful exit, then what the fuck are you doing? cold plunging or taking off work or taking the day off or even closing your laptop at 5 o'clock.

Like how dare you? You should be working all the time.

And that was really the gist of it.

And the comments were interesting because like my first reaction was like bristle reaction, like ew.

And also because I was dating somebody in a startup.

And so I get it and I see it and I think it's startup culture to be honest.