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Jack Dorsey's Daily Work Schedule That Helps Him Manage 2 Companies

Lidiya Kesarovska · Let's Reach Success Free Beginner

This is a real founder's real weekly template, not a theory. Dorsey ran two companies by giving every day one job: Monday management, Tuesday product/engineering/design, Wednesday marketing and growth, Thursday partnerships and developers, Friday culture and recruiting. It is the exact move in our answer, days get a single mode, and it shows you how to slot fundraising, product, sales, and hiring into named days instead of blending all four into every morning.

  • A copyable weekly template: one theme per day so your brain loads one context and stays in it, not five
  • Themed days also help your team, they know which day to bring you product decisions vs partnership asks, so requests batch on their own
  • Dorsey's 100-hour weeks are the caveat, take the theming structure, not the hours, and shrink it to half-days if a full day per mode is too much this stage
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The question it answers

  1. How do I stop context-switching between fundraising, product, sales, and hiring from wrecking my brain every single day?

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