I Don't Want to Live Well Off the Backs of My Employees

I've seen a lot of entrepreneurial culture that treats employees as resources to be optimized.

People whose primary value is how much productivity you can extract from them before they burn out or leave.

It's not always said that way, but it happens.

I want to say plainly: that's not the kind of entrepreneur I want to be.

My goal has never been to build a business that makes my life comfortable at the expense of the people who help me build it.

My goal is to build something where everyone thrives.

Where I'm genuinely invested in the people around me, not just their output, but their lives.

Yes, employees should be expected to do their jobs and do them well.

That's not in conflict with caring about them.

High expectations and genuine investment are not opposites.

But here's what I've found:

The entrepreneur who makes their people feel genuinely valued, seen, cared for, invested in, gets something no compensation package can manufacture.

Loyalty.

Effort that goes beyond the job description.

A team that acts like they own the place because they feel like they belong there.

You can't demand that.

You can only earn it by being the kind of leader who would get on their knees if that's what the people around them needed.

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