Joe Spector, co-founder of the telehealth company Hims & Hers and founder and CEO of Dutch, a telehealth company for pets, learned the hard way that pulling all-nighters is bad for business. After the chaotic launch of his second company, Spector reprogrammed his sleep routine for optimal performance and better health. He encourages other entrepreneurs to do the same.
"When you’re tired, you're not productive in conversations; you can't think strategically. And that has a snowball effect with all the people in your personal life: your family and with workers, for whom you’re just kind of a bad apple at this point," Spector said.
Dutch launched in July 2021. Before the big day, Spector and his team stayed up all night to prepare for the company's debut because, "it’s the glorified thing to do." But the day of the launch, Spector and his team slept in really late to compensate for the lack of Zs. What should have been a celebratory day was spent playing "catch-up."
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