Grindr CEO @georgearison calls 996 tyrannical and says it's imported from a tyrannical country, it only exists because founders are shitty at management using time in office as a substitute: "I cannot stand 996. I'm all for hardcore work. I think it's fine to expect people to work 70 hours a week if you're doing a startup. I'm more in the 55-hour range myself." "But 996 is tyrannical. It's imported from a tyrannical country. It's insane to me that people who claim they want to promote capitalism and free society would be replicating it. It basically is saying, I'm shitty at management, and I'm going to use time in office as an alternative to management." "I work easily 70 hours most weeks. But there's no way I could ever work 996 because I stop working at to , and until my kids go to bed at , I don't work." "We have a very hardcore culture at Grindr. We call it Grindr Mode. There's regular mode, and then there's hardcore mode. When we can add a lot of value, we go into hardcore mode. But 996 is awful and I can't stand it." @Grindr @creatine_cycle