Startups life. No sleep, late nights, weekends, no Diwali holidays, not seeing your family for years

These are bullshit companies. These are run by promoters who have no vision. They raised funds and ended up making a deal with the devil.
Deep in shit, they want to pretend it doesn't stink. So this drama about hussle culture and work hard party hard nonsense. Deep down they are crying probably cursing their decision to rise money outside.

Sounds really depressing

I have worked in startups my entire career (mid 2015) and its been absolutely brilliant even with all the negative stuff.

It’s perfectly fine to have some late nights, a few weekends but if this is the norm - find a new role

See, startups are high risk high reward . The covid boom made it seem like zero risk all reward and now a lot of folks are complaining about how they cannot have govt job timings and security with startup growth🤔

Have you built for zero to 1? Maybe somebody laid the foundation for you or the founders were well capitalized. I think this does not connect with you, and it is wrong you jumped in. Someone who has faced this should lay out a response. Govt job? Now, this is speculation and exaggeration. And also, it is not wrong for govt jobs to have security, time bound approach and an end of day. Maybe people like you who talk about high risk high reward which is rare sell this narrative. This is bull. The smartest people work far less than their peers who resort to creative destruction in the name of startups.