Indian tech entrepreneur Bhavish Aggarwal – founder of Ola Cabs, Ole Electric and AI unicorn Ola Krutrim – doubled down on support for 70-hour wor

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2024-07-10 15:00:13

Indian tech entrepreneur Bhavish Aggarwal – founder of Ola Cabs, Ole Electric and AI unicorn Ola Krutrim – doubled down on support for 70-hour work weeks during an interview posted last Sunday.

Aggarwal told [VIDEO] India outlet ANI News that he works 20 hours a day, seven days a week – toil he has also previously boasted about on ex-Twitter.

"If you have honesty of purpose and if you have clarity of purpose, then you can have the resolve to take it in your stride," he reasoned.

The ethos has previously been promoted by other Indian billionaires including Infosys co-founder (and Rishi Sunak's father-in-law) Narayana Murthy.

Aggarwal xeeted back in October last year that he was in agreement with Murthy – an action he recalled saw him trolled on social media. On Sunday he asserted he didn't mind the backlash as he has "a very strong belief that a generation will have to do penance."

"The younger generation today wants a little bit off – I don't agree with this work life balance concept," argued Aggarwal, who described clocking off to enjoy life as "an outcome of Western thought process of the post-industrial era" – an era which he sees now as being replaced by an AI "techno future."