Bill Gates said "there should be a very large sacrifice made during those early years."
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00:00For my particular makeup, I mean, it really is true that I didn't believe in weekends.
00:05I didn't believe in vacations.
00:06I mean, you know, I knew everybody's license plate so I could tell you over the last month
00:10when their car had come and gone from the parking lot.
00:14So, I don't recommend it.
00:16A, I don't think most people would enjoy it.
00:20Once I got into my 30s, I could hardly even imagine how I had done that
00:26because by then, some natural behavior kicked in.
00:29And I loved weekends and, you know, my girlfriend liked vacations
00:33and that turned out to be kind of a neat thing.
00:35I was sure I would never do anything but ride and coach.
00:38You know, now I have a plane.
00:39So, it's very much counter-revelations have taken place at high speed.
00:44But, yes, it is nice if during those first several years,
00:50if you have a team that's chosen to be pretty maniacal about the company
00:56and how far that goes, you know, you should have a mutual understanding
00:59so you're not one person expecting one thing, another person expecting another thing.
01:04But, yes, I have a fairly hardcore view that there should be a very large sacrifice made
01:11during those early years.