JWZ on work habits
2011-11-29 15:38:27.889953+00 by
Dan Lyke
4 comments
JWZ: Watch a VC use my name to sell a con.
I did make a bunch of money by winning the Netscape Startup Lottery, it's true. So did most of the early engineers. But the people who made 100x as much as the engineers did? I can tell you for a fact that none of them slept under their desk. If you look at a list of financially successful people from the software industry, I'll bet you get a very different view of what kind of sleep habits and office hours are successful than the one presented here.
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#Comment Re: made: 2011-12-01 18:40:32.814002+00 by:
jeff
What was the Netscape Startup Lottery? Did you participate and win?
#Comment Re: made: 2011-12-01 19:53:30.343277+00 by:
Dan Lyke
I participated and lost. The HTML browser I wrote in 1993 did not go on to be the core product of a company which went public with a huge IPO.
#Comment Re: made: 2011-12-01 20:21:21.442055+00 by:
jeff
Of course we all know about Netscape...
"It's better to have loved and lost than to have never loved at all..."
Hats off to you for going for it, Dan!
#Comment Re: made: 2011-12-04 17:34:24.223317+00 by:
ebradway
I don't think Dan realized he was participating in a lottery at the time. He was
just hacking some code. I don't even think Netscape knew what a lottery they were
in... It's that rock star programmer thing.
Dan did get his name in the credits for film about the time that company had its
IPO. So he got some fame...