Reid Hoffman, Founding Partner of LinkedIn, says that looking for a work-life balance is a ‘red flag that you are not determined to win’

• Reid Hoffman, Visionary behind LinkedInFor serious starting entrepreneurs, he is not believed in the balance of work-life. One night, except for the ritual, he waited for employees to work continuously.

LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman has a reality control for entrepreneurs: If you are serious about setting up a company, you should say goodbye to watch your favorite Netflix show after dinner or after sleeping on weekends.

Hoffman said in Stanford University’s “how to start a start” lesson in 2014. “ [the one’s who are] Like ‘I will literally put everything to do this’. ‘

Although Hoffman’s work-life balance is in the case of work-life, the difficult love is nothing new, but the clip has been recently Re -emerged on social media And now he’s getting thousands of likes.

And even after the pandemi, their views did not shake when the Americans noticed that constant business grind would harm their mental health.

At the end of last year, he said, “You are dying as a beginning by nature,” he said CEO’s diary podcast. “The work-life balance is not the starting game.”

Start-ups cannot spend time from working-except for this daily ritual, Hoffman says

Although one -third of the employees of LinkedIn’s first days were children, they were not an option to spend time, except for dinner at home.

“When we started LinkedIn, we started with people with families. Of course, eat dinner with your family. Then, after dinner with your family, open your laptop and go back to the common work experience and continue to work.”

Although it sounded cruel in today’s culture, it was even worse when he helped find Hoffman Paypal; There, dinner was served in the office.

“People who think this is toxic don’t understand the starting game and just mistakes,” he said. “The game is busy. And by the way, if you don’t do it, you finally leave a job.

Hoffman, working in an attempt for those who do not agree is a choice.

However, the award on the other side is the second; Authorized, LinkedIn’s 100 first employees no longer need to work, he added. Microsoft acquired the professional network platform for 26.2 billion dollars in 2016.

Luck He contacted Hoffman for a comment.

As a leader, if you want to find success, ‘pain’ should be embraced

Hoffman’s words are sometimes echoed with leaders in all regions of the technology industry, which has to replace the work-life balance to overcome difficulties.

Take VSCO, for example. The social media company established in 2014, “Vsco girl“Trend and then Worth 550 million dollars. However, when Eric Wittman took over as a CEO in 2023, he was trying to shake the image of photography as an enthusiasm.

Under the leadership of Wittman, the company finally made a profit in 2024. And he said it soon Luck It is important to admit that there will be stress and long nights in this process.

“There is a lot of pain during this journey, or he says. “You must embrace him.”

And he says that the need for grinding the extra clocks extends to the staff – because the success is not just the summit.

“All the people I invest in, they take what they need to be modest extreme gains, they work with people who really really think, and they are willing to raise their ways to find these wins and grow up to something you know is increasingly successful.” He adds.

“When you distilled everything, they are often the features I see where you create a successful company or a successful product.”

This story initially took part in Fortune.com