Caterina Fake, founder of Flickr.com : Working hard is overrated
(via Bijan Sabet)
“When we were building Flickr, we worked very hard. We worked all
waking hours, we didn’t stop. My Hunch cofounder Chris Dixon and I were
talking about how hard we worked on our first startups, his being Site
Advisor, acquired by McAfee — 14-18 hours a day. We agreed that a lot
of what we then considered “working hard” was actually “freaking out”.
Freaking out included panicking,…