Billionaire and legendary Silicon Valley investor Marc Andreessen has every second of his day and night scheduled, including free time and time to think — and the practice is critical to his success, he says.
"The big thing is basically *everything* is on the calendar. Sleep is on the calendar, going to bed is in there and so is free time," Andreessen, 48, a co-founder of Silicon Valley venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz, told angel investor and Twitter, Facebook and Snap alum Sriram Krishnan for a story published on The Observer Effect website on Saturday.
"Free time is critical because that's the release valve. You can work full tilt for a long time as long as you know you have actual time for yourself coming up. I find if you don't schedule enough free time, you get resentful of your own calendar," Andreessen said.
While today keeping such a meticulously booked and color coded calendar gives Andreessen a sense of calm ("If I didn't have this, I'd be in a panic the very first moment I wake up," he said), it wasn't always that way.
