The Indian-origin CEO of a US-based artificial intelligence startup (AI Startu) has received death threats. This CEO is Daksh Gupta of San Francisco-based American company Greptile, who found it difficult to talk about his company’s work culture on the social media platform, where he talked about working 84 hours a week and then what was the problem. He became heated and people even threatened to kill him.
Explaining the company’s work culture was costly
Daksh Gupta, CEO of US AI startup Greptile, has said he has received several death threats after revealing his company’s work culture. According to the India Today report, he had spoken about the company’s 84-hour work week and lack of work-life balance in a social media post, while stressing on transparency. By doing this, it became a topic of discussion and started a heated debate on social media.
CEO’s post went viral
CEO Daksh Gupta wrote in his tweet: ‘Graptile has an 84 hour work week and here the clock keeps ticking late into the night, even on weekends employees work here. In his tweet, he wrote that I recently started telling candidates applying to the company during the first interview that there is no work-life balance at Greptile. Generally, every day employees’ work starts at 9 am and ends at 11 pm. We also work on Saturdays and sometimes on Sundays. His tweet quickly went viral and had already received 1.6 million views.
Now that this is on Reddit’s front page and my inbox is 20% death threats and 80% job applications, here’s a follow-up.
– to all of you who are overworked and underpaid in your software jobs, especially outside the US, I feel for you and I’m sorry this struck a chord. town… pic.twitter.com/RzAM75DiG2
– Daksh Gupta (@dakshgup) November 10, 2024
After this, he recently made another post, in which he wrote that after talking about the company’s work culture, he has received many death threats. He wrote in his new tweet that 20 percent of my inbox is full of death threats, while 80 percent is full of job applications.
People said: toxic work culture.
After this social media post about the 84-hour work week, a heated debate began in the company. While responding, many users criticized Daksh Gupta, calling him a toxic work culture and describing his mentality as terrible. But, on the one hand, there is no shortage of those who criticize it; On the other hand, some also appreciate the transparency of the position and company of this CEO of Indian origin. However, he wrote that as long as employees are paid properly, it is fine, otherwise it will be called modern slavery.
