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7am - 11pm? So do you have make a lot of sacrifices with your personal life? Like girlfriend, wife, family?

No one person at justin.tv works those hours (and the article didn't say that).

Many people worked long hours in the early days (when I first started here, I worked 12 hours on weekdays, and 8 hours each on Saturday and Sunday). I haven't done that in a while though - it isn't sustainable.

I get into the office around 10 to 10:30 (not mentioned in the article). So, leaving at 7:30 is around a 9 hour day (pretty reasonable I think). On some occasions I leave later (last Friday we were at the office until 11!), but that's certainly not every day.

Also, generally we don't work from the office on weekends any more.

Our basic operating idea at the company is that if people think something makes it harder to get their job done then it's a problem worth fixing. Professionalism in the office is just one example.