As Reddit post about 2 AM meetings at Zepto goes viral, CEO Aadit Palicha jokes about work-life balance: ‘Recommend it to all competitors’

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I person thing against work-life balance. In fact, I urge it to each our competitors :)

— Aadit Palicha (@aadit_palicha) December 4, 2024

Several social media users flocked to the remark conception and slammed Palicha implicit the viral Reddit posts. “Fun fact: this is his lone tweet posted earlier 12 PM successful the past year. IYKYK,” a idiosyncratic wrote, taking a excavation astatine Palicha, who, arsenic per the Redditor, wakes up late. “Some radical are truthful poor, each they person is money,” different idiosyncratic commented.

“Work-life equilibrium isn’t conscionable for competitors, it’s for longevity and health. Maybe your existent borderline is successful however good your squad thrives, not conscionable however hard they work,” a 3rd idiosyncratic wrote.

The backlash comes aft a Reddit user, who claimed to beryllium a Zepto employee, called retired the institution for allegedly creating a toxic enactment culture. The viral station claimed that Palicha starts moving lone astatine 2 PM and this leads to meetings being acceptable up astatine 2 AM. The station besides stated that each the meetings astatine the institution are delayed. “There are a batch of acheronian patterns successful the app to extract wealth from customers successful aggregate ways including charging much for customers with phones much than 30,000 inr,” the station claimed.

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Zepto’s laminitis reacting to this station connected Reddit ? https://t.co/lGK0LRcnjg pic.twitter.com/gKHOinLojI

— Chandra R. Srikanth (@chandrarsrikant) December 4, 2024

Palicha co-founded Zepto with Stanford dropout Kaivalya Vohra successful 2021. Palicha was named the 2nd youngest idiosyncratic connected the Hurun India Rich List this year.