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Bengaluru founder
Recently, a Bengaluru-based founder, Prasanna S, went viral on X (formerly Twitter) when they shared that their entire team was working at 10 PM, despite the fact that no one was deliberately asked to stay back late.
The post quickly drew a barrage of opinions from netizens who thought that this was just “glorified overwork.”
WHAT REALLY HAPPENED
Prasanna S is the co-founder of Rippling, a B2B SaaS superapp.
According to him, the tech startup is worth more than $10 billion dollars.
On November 11, Prasanna took to X (formerly Twitter) to announce that everybody at their office was working even at 10 PM, without having been previously asked to stay back.
The Bengaluru founder wrote,“It’s 10pm and the entire office is alive. No one told them to stay. Blessed to be working with a team of owners.”
“We are looking for great people to join us!”he added.
Later, he called it a “long night” and finally revealed that it is “launch day.”
Prasanna S has now launched 0xPPL 2.0, a tech startup that solves the problem of fragmentation in crypto.
In a separate post, he explained the use case by stating that 0xPPL indexes all the blockchains and locates an individual's assets not only inside of the chain, but also inside of smart contracts.
“We are a full fledged wallet where you can see and manage these funds in one place. No more thinking about gas per chain - we run a gas tank for you. To allow you to withdraw/unstake your funds from within a smart contract, we use LLMs to generate AI adaptors - thankfully crypto is open-source and easy to simulate – LLMs are getting great at interacting with these open back-ends,”Prasanna S wrote.
“GLORIFIED OVERWORK & BONDED LABOUR”
Despite the founder clearly stating that no employee was asked to stay back till 10 PM, social media users called it “toxic.”
“Either you are creating a toxic environment where your employees don’t feel safe to go home at regular hours, or all your employees are inefficient and need to overwork to compensate. Either way, making your team stay in the office till 10pm is nothing to flex about,” one X user wrote.
Another commented, “stop glorifying slave corporate culture.”
“It's called peer pressure and untold expectations with clear repurcursions,” yet another individual wrote.
People even termed it as “bonded labour” and “a cry for better time management.”