Tech founder goes viral for 84-hour work week post
- Daksh Gupta, a 23-year-old tech founder, revealed that his company expects employees to work 84-hour weeks with 'no work-life balance.'
- Gupta stated that working Saturdays and going home at 11 PM is 'typical.'
- Despite severe backlash, including death threats, Gupta noted a surge in job applications for positions at Greptile.
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Who wants to slave through an 84 hour work week?
(San Francisco, CA) — The CEO of a California tech startup says he is looking for employees who are willing to work long hours, up to 84 hours a week. Daksh Gupta heads a company called Greptile that focuses on artificial intelligence in San Francisco. He says he expects anyone who works for him to be available from 9AM- 11AM, five days a week, and to slave away on weekends too. Gupta says it’s all about staying competitive in the marketplace. T…
Viral 84-Hour Workweek Guy Calls Himself 'San Franciscan,' Has Lived Here a Year and a Half
You may have seen a story about a San Francisco AI startup founder who posted to X — where else? — about how he tells prospective hires that his company expects "no work-life-balance" and 84-hour workweeks, in order to weed out the less motivated.The post originally went up nearly a month ago, and clearly has been bouncing around some circles before going fully viral on Reddit. In it, Greptile co-founder Daksh Gupta, 23, discloses that he has re…

'No work-life-balance': Tech founder goes viral for 84-hour work week post
SAN FRANCISCO (KRON) – The 23-year-old founder of a San Francisco tech startup has gone viral over a social media post admitting that his company offers "no work-life-balance." In a post on X last month, Daksh Gupta, the founder of AI startup Greptile, said his company offers an 84-hour work week. Employees at Greptile, according to Gupta, work 14-hour workdays six days a week, or sometimes seven days. "Recently I started telling candidates rig…
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