The Indian Origin woman and startup founder in the US caused online discussion online after she claimed that the work of 80 hours a week is not excessive, but simply “baseline”. Non Suresh, the founder of April-Ai Ais Assistant, based in the US-based video TIMELAPSE on X (formerly Twitter), shows that she works from early morning to late nights.
In his now viral post Suresh wrote: “If you do not spend 14 or more hours working on your dream, you are ngmi.” She added: “You can’t build a product changing in the world on energy 9-5. 80 hours of weeks is not extreme. It’s a baseline.”
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Her comments, which gathered more than 65,000 views, made a number of answers from users – from admiration to criticism.
One person asked, “What do you do to decompress after 80 hours of week? Physically. What does it actually work?”
Another responded by sarcasm, “Why only 14 hours? Do it 24.”
Some shared personal experiences. “I fired 80 hours of chasing. I found that I was actually building better products when I was resting and thinking clearly,” the user wrote.
Others commented: “Lords, another person who never had to pay bills or have a social life that told me how to live your best life.”
Since then, the contribution has stimulated a wider conversation on the balance between working and private life and pressure of culture from above in startups and technologies.
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He joined the ongoing conversation about the balance between working and private life and the leader of India-Origin Tech Dharmesh Shah offered a sincere reality of building a successful startup.
Shah, who is the founder and chief technology director of Hubspot, shared his ideas in post on X (formerly Twitter) in March, where he openly spoke about the challenges of working and personal life in the beginning of the world.
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He acknowledged that maintaining balance is difficult, especially when focusing on a high level of success. “She wanted to balance between working and private life is fine. They wanted to build a breakthrough startup is fine. But you should not expect both,” he wrote.
“For more than 30 years and the knowledge of hundreds of founders, I have never met the only founder who has built a breakthrough start while maintaining a balance between work and private life. Any competitive human efforts to exhibit. Whether it is athletics, art or business.
“The unfortunate comes from expectations more of the system than you put. Both of them are perfectly fine, if you understand that you have chosen your way. Two roads were different in wood, and if you take the most traveled, don’t think it won’t change,” Shah said.
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