For the average person who hasn’t lived through building a startup and creating something new, in domains one isn’t an expert in, overcoming what seems to be insurmountable odds and shipping a product nevertheless, for those people: Yes, this is a crazy madman. For the ones who are used to working in perfectly oiled machines that hardly have any kinks. Who clock in at 9, leave at 5, going through such craziness would send them into an asylum. But those people aren’t made for startup life. One either is willing to go live with that or one isn’t. Those who aren’t shouldn’t work in such environments.