[gatherhunterer]

It’s also bad for business. Healthy workers do healthy work and they can do it for years without becoming disillusioned or overly invested. If the company fails because of uncontrollable factors like an economic crash they will still have a healthy personal life and all of that time won’t feel like a waste.

The attitude of trying to solve one big problem now so that everything else will fall into place doesn’t work. If the company does well you still only have your work. You don’t just win a great life because you reached a finish line in one area. I take issue with the term “work-life balance” but every job is a lifestyle job. The line that the OP quoted is just start-up talk for “hustle culture”.