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"There is no balance."

Kevin O’Leary has built a brand on saying the things other investors won’t. His latest target is the idea that founders can build something great while protecting their personal time.

In a new interview with Harvard Business School Foundry’s Reza Satchu, the Shark Tank investor argued that anyone trying to balance a young company against the rest of their life is fooling themselves. That’s particularly true in the earliest, most fragile period of building a company, he argued.

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00:00I think this concept in the founder years, which I call the first 36 months, the idea of balance
00:05is complete. There is no balance. You have to work 25 hours a day, eight days a week,
00:10because some guy in Mumbai or Shanghai is going to kick your. It's a global competition. Whatever
00:15your idea is, there's somebody else with the same idea. And the founders that understand that
00:22sacrifice at the beginning is part of the price you pay. There is no balance. And so the ones
00:28that are successful in my book, the ones I've invested in are ferocious and they have a real
00:34challenge with their significant others.
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