LinkedIn’s cofounder Reid Hoffman says seeking work-life balance is a red flag that you’re ‘not committed to winning’

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• greenhorn@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I am not committed to winning

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• kat_angstrom@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Maybe if workers actually Won by doing their jobs, this would be even close to approaching accurate.

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• phoenixarise@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Winning what, more profits for you instead of me? Get fucked, loser.

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• cabron_offsets@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Cool, he might consider fucking off and dying.

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• mrodri89@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  If you think you’re winning because you’re a corporate slave in capitalism then actually you’re losing at life.

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• Red_October@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Exactly the sort of vapid self destructive Corpo-Cap shittery you’d expect out of the LinkedIn cofounder. He’s probably like that all the time.

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• Zomg@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I love for me, not for a business.

  When I’m old and dying I’ll never say “I wish I worked more”

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  • jwt@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I think loving for a business is illegal in many places. ;)

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    • Zomg@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Lol

      Live*

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• shalafi@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  a reality check for entrepreneurs

  Yes. You gotta grind like hell to start a seriously profitable company. Had drinks at our company’s open house with a client who owned 3 or 4 small construction related businesses.

  “You have to bust your ass for about 2-2.5 years to get a business rolling, then it mostly takes care of itself.”

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• floofloof@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  “Winning” presumably means doing something as worthwhile as inflicting LinkedIn on the world. I’m good thanks.

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  • meyotch@slrpnk.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    LinkedIn == blessed 😍

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• ArchmageAzor@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I want work life imbalance. I want less work and more life.

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• ThraawnSolo@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Win what?

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  • goodthanks@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Win the expectation to do more work without proper compensation, in my experience.

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• Lettuceeatlettuce@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Ah yes, slave away for decades to make the company’s executives/owners richer, sacrificing watching your kids grow up, sacrificing your relationship with your spouse, family, and friends.

  Giving up time for hobbies and community service so that I can get a raise that barely keeps up with inflation, a pizza party twice a year, shitty coffee that the employees have to make, in a pot that the employees have to clean, and eventually a parking space that is 100 feet closer to the entrance so I can get into the office even quicker…

  Nah, forgive me for passing on being a “winner.”

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• DrownedRats@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Thats exactly the kind of thing I would expect the founder of LinkedIn to say. Bet there’s a bunch of absolute lunatics ready to repost that to their own linked in page.

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• i_stole_ur_taco@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  It’s weird that it’s always losers that are the ones talking about winning.

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• Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Fuck winning.

  Be the best, climb the ladder Do it better, higher, faster I refuse to participate If I go up it will be slow I’m bringing everyone I know Stopping on the sixth or seventh rung

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• Yxf@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I’m proud of being a loser in this case.

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• Maiq@lemy.lol ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Not a good dedicated wage slave.

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• Goldholz@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  That gave me the greatest laught yesterday.

  It was so expected but still funny

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• Buddahriffic@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Define winning.

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  • madcaesar@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Making money for your boss of course!

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    • sporkler@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Basing your self worth on making money for your betters and then sacrificing everything for it.

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• mwguy@infosec.pub ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  You committed to paying?

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• paddythegeek@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  So done with this bullshit.

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• PanArab@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Patient zero of !linkedinlunatics@sh.itjust.works

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• CaoCaoKing@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Well I say seeking to remove my work-life balance means he’s not committing to not wanting to taste lead at high velocity using the base of his skull as a mouth.

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• boolean_sledgehammer@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Winning what for whom, you blubbering dipshit?

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• Nemo@slrpnk.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  The quote is right though I suspect he means something very incorrect by it. If your work is hostile to your life, you’re losing; ditch that job immediately.

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• CrashballCentre@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  “Visionary”

  As LinkedIn begs for attention most days.

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• Snapz@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  “…me my money.”

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• eskimofry@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Sounds like he is just jealous of those who CAN manage their work and life and still suceed.

  Hey Reid! You should pull yourself up by your bootstraps and be more like Tom over there!

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• 211@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  In the context of start-ups. Where workers presumably are also rewarded with stock options or similar. Takes a certain mentality and a definition of “winning” that I don’t share, which is why I don’t and wouldn’t work at a start-up. And besides, the message is chiefly directed at founders. I don’t find it -that- controversial.

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• EndlessNightmare@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Giving up work-life balance in the pursuit of “winning” leads to a Pyrrhic victory, assuming that you even actually win.

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