Hey, it's all relative. I have no personal life or relationships to speak of, and no projects. Sounds to me like he's doing ok.

I have a few friends and we go out for beers once in awhile to talk, that's the extent of my "social life". Everything else is work.

He's getting out of the corporate world. A few years of double duty can be worth it.

It's not a way to live forever, but for people who can work like that, for a few years it can suit them really well.

The con of the startup racket is that so many people think they're buying their freedom with the 16+ hour days (and have been misled into believing that) when, in fact, the proportion who actually become billionaires or major venture capitalists is pretty terrible.