Nico Laqua, the founder of US startup Corgi Insurance, recently gave an interview where he claimed "if you're not working seven days per week, you'll lose". In response, Karri Saarinen, founder of fellow US company Linear, proposed that “grinding is never good for any creative problem”, and that mastery is “achieving the outcome with the least necessary effort”.

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June 16, 2026
Grind culture is a failure of management — but we still turn away 9-5 candidates
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