You can see from the emails he outright does it just to "create a sense of urgency" and wants others to do the same. It does have its results but it churns through employees a lot as well. It's a good recipe to achieve great things but the problem is random middle managers of random SaaS b2b products thinking they need to do the same.

He is overly optimistic about timelines, but he usually delivers. Or did I imagine his company catching a fucking rocket out of the air with chopsticks? Guess that was under delivering