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Productivity hacks are overrated, says a16z VC who sold his own startup for $1.25B
What’s the secret to success? It isn’t any of the trends that so many founders in Silicon Valley subscribe to, a16z's Martin Casado says.
Not the trends that so many Silicon Valley founders subscribe to, Andreessen Horowitz general partner VC Martin Casado said to a standing-room-only crowd at TechCrunch Disrupt last week. Beyond that there are productivity hacks like “Eat the Frog,” doing your most disliked task first thing every morning; the Pomodoro Technique, working in 25-minute chunks with 5-minute breaks; and countless other trends. Instead of filling a day with rigidity, “startups are so hard, and you as a founder, are so traumatized that I actually think you need to kind of do the opposite … just focus on staying sane and taking care of yourself.”
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