Dec 04, 2024 07:04 PM IST
Zepto CEO Aadit Palicha discovered backing from Indian-origin Daksh Gupta, who confronted criticism for advocating lengthy working hours.
Zepto CEO Aadit Palicha, who has been on the centre of a debate on work tradition after a viral declare on his firm’s work tradition, has obtained assist from a fellow Gen Z entrepreneur in Silicon Valley, whom he had quoted in a now-viral submit.
Zepto CEO Aadit Palicha (L) acquired assist from Greptile CEO Daksh Gupta (R).
Daksh Gupta, the Indian-origin CEO in San Francisco, who obtained excessive backlash after he revealed that his staff are anticipated to work greater than 14 hours a day, responded to Palicha’s submit on X.
On Wednesday, Palicha referenced Gupta’s controversial stance in a submit on X.
“I have nothing against work-life balance. In fact, I recommend it to all our competitors,” Palicha wrote on Wednesday morning. The startup founder credited the traces to Daksh Gupta, who had posted the identical phrases final month after beginning a heated debate on work tradition at startups.
Minutes later, Gupta gave a single-word response to Palicha’s submit, displaying his solidarity.
“Real,” he stated.
Aadit Palicha’s submit in response to viral Reddit declare?
A Reddit by an nameless consumer, claiming to be a Zepto worker, accused the quick-commerce startup for allegedly fostering “poisonous work tradition”. The user goes on to make several accusations against
HT.com cannot verify the authenticity of the Reddit post. We have reached out to Zepto for a statement, and this report will be updated when the company responds.
Meanwhile, Gupta, co-founder and CEO of San Francisco-based AI startup Greptile, likened the intensity of his company’s work culture to a “rocket launch”.
“It is a rocket launch in some methods,” the 23-year-old informed NBC Bay Space on Tuesday.
Gupta emphasised that success is commonly a mixture of arduous work and luck. The previous Amazon techie Daksh Gupta, who accomplished his education in Delhi, stirred up the talk on work-life steadiness final month with a submit on X (previously Twitter) during which he stated he reveals to candidates making use of at his start-up that Greptile gives no work-life steadiness.
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