Trail Building Startups and Grind Culture

Most often, when we think of or talk about startups, the prevailing images that come to mind are venture capital-backed tech startups in Silicon Valley. Yet a startup is a startup, whether you’re starting a bakery, a coffee roasting company, an apparel brand, or, yes, a trail building company.

In light of a recent article we posted on our website in which Greg Mazu shared the painful story of shutting down Singletrack Trails, I thought it would be timely to address trail building startups, the pressure faced by those launching these kinds of ventures, and the overall hype of grind culture that is prevalent in startups.