I Am Sam Altman, President of Y Combinator. AMA

Re:I Am Sam Altman, President of Y Combinator. AMA by dfabulich on Friday March 18, 2016 @08:15PM (#11316406)

Can anybody name a few successful high-growth startups that were started by people with these kinds of family obligations?

If it has happened before, that's evidence that it can happen again, but if it's never happened before, that's evidence that it may be harder or impossible to form a high-growth startup under obligations like those.

(Disclaimer: high-growth startups are not the only kind of business worth forming. The director of engineering of a slow-growth enterprise software company may have a higher quality of life than a co-founder at an unprofitable unicorn.)

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Re:I Am Sam Altman, President of Y Combinator. AMA by mej10 on Friday March 18, 2016 @08:40PM (#11316521)

SpaceX and Tesla?

But more seriously, some examples: http://priceonomics.com/founders-with-kids/

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Re:I Am Sam Altman, President of Y Combinator. AMA by argonaut on Friday March 18, 2016 @09:38PM (#11316751)

Elon Musk has divorced twice. Not making a value judgment, just pointing out that he has clearly chosen entrepreneurial success over marital success.

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Re:I Am Sam Altman, President of Y Combinator. AMA by argonaut on Monday March 21, 2016 @08:15PM (#11333403)

Aaaand, he's getting divorced a third time (just in the news).

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Re:I Am Sam Altman, President of Y Combinator. AMA by throwaway_xx9 on Friday March 18, 2016 @08:37PM (#11316508)

JBoss, EDS and Linksys or Netgear were started by guys in serious relationships where failure meant "get a real job to keep the fiance/wife."

Elon Musk had wealth but rolled the dice while married and nearly ran out of cash funding his 3 companies.

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