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Work-life balance is passe. Founders must focus more on work-life harmony

Work-life balance is not a realistic goal for any entrepreneur. What many young founders are now talking about instead is work-life harmony

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Mohit Bhatnagar | Tech In Asia
Loney Antony’s entrepreneurial journey was measured in long, hard yards. The 2008 financial crisis struck shortly after Sequoia India invested in his company, Prizm Payment Services. He had to work twice as hard before the business began to hit the kind of scale we all knew it could achieve. And for every hard yard that Antony walked, so did his family.

At a celebratory dinner in 2014 (when Prizm was sold to Hitachi), Antony’s wife, Pushpa, made a short speech that struck a deep chord with me. After congratulating the company’s founders and the management team, she shared the unvarnished truth