Why men start companies.

My startup is a few months old, and i'm just not getting much sleep. There's a lot of day-by-day ad hoc management. Shit comes up. Ugly unpredictable stuff. Fears. Uncertainties. But then there are moments of real excitement. Private pride. I've seen this before. Oh right. It's a baby. A start-up company is a newborn and it's no wonder no one is getting much sleep. It's 6pm right now and i'm still unshowered, unshaved -- i kept almost-starting my day but thing after thing came up, and i never made it out.

Men start companies because they cannot gestate babies. It is as close as a man will come to making something from nothing, procreation, nursing it along, creating something lasting that matters. A company also provides the kind of short-term rewards that men particularly like. I think women are better at the unrewarded outcome. Motherhood is often thank-less. A company offers rewards that are more tangible, visible, and potentially short-term. These are good man-type rewards. Yes women start companies too, and men share in the joy of parenthood... i'm just saying...

... oh, time to go change the baby. Catch you at 3am.