“Once I had some revenue… I moved my W2 full-time day job down to four days a week… then I moved down to three days a week. They were pissed… but they didn’t want to lose me either.”

Rob Walling · Startups For the Rest of Us · Episode 852 | Getting Big Name Customer Case Studies and More Listener Questions (with Ruben Gamez)

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Reduced his full-time W2 job from five days a week to four days, then to three days, to free up daytime hours for his SaaS work

5 → 4 → 3 days per week

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