Work-life balance is talking a major talk in today’s corporate scenario. While some leaders argue that maintaining this balance increases the employee productivity, others are less confident about its value. The suspects are LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman, who has consistently expressed his doubt about the importance of work-life balance. In a recent post on X (East Twitter), Hoffman reiterated his stance, suggesting that the startup founders who claim to achieve the work-life balance are not really committed to success.

It comes a month later when Hoffman explained this exact principle at a guest lecture at Stanford University. The title “How to bea Great Founder”, the co-founder of LinkedIn did not shake the pot on the centuries-old debate around the work-life balance. Take it? Forget it – at least if you really want to make something great.

“I really feel that founders have no balance,” Hoffman announced, no punches. “Literally, if I ever talk about a founder about how I have a balanced life and next. (I would say) they are not committed to win.” According to him, the best founders are not all – no half remedy, no hedging bets. “Only like great founders, I am going to put everything in doing so now.”

Hoffman’s philosophy is clear: If you are following the startup success, you have become a little passionate. Hobbies, family time, parties-they are not off-lymph, but they cannot be the main task. Spotlight, they say, should always be on business. “It is super hard and there are plenty of ways to die (for business),” he warns, reminds debutant entrepreneurs that making something from scratches is a tireless, incompetent game.

However, he is not arguing for a type of personality, but when you are establishing your company, you should work hard. And is it not given? To be fair, Hoffman is not saying that you need to become a harmit. He believes that the founders can still enjoy dinner or see their families – but still, mental gear must change. You got to be “super-centric”, he insists. The startup piece is not forever, but when you are in it, Hoffman says, life is expected to be a bit slant.

“Now this lifestyle can live only for a few years. But when the founders are working in the manufacture of their businesses, they have to be unbalanced,” they say. In other words, if you are dreaming of Unicorn and IPO, you want to stop that yoga.

And now, if you compare Hoffman’s views with the most controversial, the co-founder of Infosys, Narayan Murthy, you will understand that the difference is very beginning. Murthy once said that young professionals should take 70 hours a week and there is no Sunday. While he said that he does not believe in the idea of ​​a work-life balance, he thinks that it is a responsibility for those lucky people who are enough to get an education, often subsidized in India.

It is reported here that the two leaders have different approaches. First, both idol and Hoffman are against the work-life balance ideology. But where Hoffman is telling it only for startup founders, Murari claimed that everyone, including young professionals, should follow the same. Secondly, Hoffman knows that parties and dinner are an important factor in life, but not all over life. On the other hand, Murthy has canceled all other aspects and urged everyone to work 70 hours a day.

Now, after this comparison, Hoffman matters a lot. Isn’t it?