The Ironically Unhealthy Lifestyle of Running a Health Tech Startup

Startups and Health are hard to manage. Especially together.

The tech community has developed the unfortunate habit of glorifying unhealthy lifestyles. 80 hour work weeks, minimal sleep, eating for sustenance and convenience over nutrition and balance — the entrepreneurial grind is often based on destroying our bodies to pursue some greater vision.

We’ve romanticized insane amounts of caffeine and normalized cheap meals to the point of no return; our depraved nervous systems are a badge of honor worn by the brave few willing to forgo sleep in the name of progress.

In short, it’s crazy.

Not to say this extreme lifestyle is unnecessary; Startups are a lot of work and, when juggling it along with everything else in our lives, they can be nothing short of brutal.

I’ve been reaping the negative effects of a full blown startup routine for almost a year. I’ve been splitting my time between a wife, newborn, full-time engineering job, and a budding startup––the result is total physical exhaustion.

The painfully ironic part? I’m the founder of Biostrap, a clinical grade health startup.