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I don't know if I would call 4HWW the opposite of Paul Graham. Consider YC itself - they give you money, access to VCs, etc - your job is to make something that is cool. This isn't outsourcing everything, but it is very much a capitalist division of labor, which I see as the main message of the book. Focus on where you add value, outsource everything else. The cofounder versus soulmate debate I think is different - it's more of a morale thing than anything else, I think Tim's point is about productivity, not morale.

The title of the book similarly refers to the 4 hours of actual value adding work being done a week - in a startup, you're working 50-80 hours a week because you're adding value all those hours that couldn't come from someone else (or, that you don't want to necessarily for team morale purposes)




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