996

If you are working 9-9 x 6 to build a $10 billion company, why not double your head count and halve the hours? If you build that mega unicorn, there will be plenty of money to share and still have more than you will ever need.

Or do the 996 thing and try not to think too much about your Alzheimer’s and heart disease filled future. Maybe leave a big gift to the hospital that takes care of you before you die at way too young of an age.

> If you are working 9-9 x 6 to build a $10 billion company, why not double your head count and halve the hours?

Dr. Fred Brooks would like to have a word with you:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mythical_Man-Month

I know you’re showing the absurdity of the rest, but:

> why not double your head count and halve the hours?

Because of friction: Not only you need much more HR to hire double the workforce, but people require double the attention, and then a subgroup will invent a sidequest etc.

In most of IT, large famous software were often built by 30 people. That’s valid for Netscape/Firefox, Internet Explorer, Jira, etc.

The best software, like Git, Javascript or Linux, were initially written by 1 person.