In r/smallbusiness, an owner contrasts a funded friend’s 70-hour weeks and investor pressure with running a small, profitable, fully remote team that allows time off, framing lifestyle as the primary compensation tradeoff.
Anyone else deliberately staying small and not chasing scale?
He raised funding, hired 30 people, got the office, the whole thing
But he works 70-hour weeks, answers to investors, hasn't taken a proper holiday in two years…
I've got a team of 6, no investors, fully remote, decent profit, I can even take a break, go traveling and nothing breaks.
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