This CEO lived on canned soup and took just two days off for his daughter’s birth. Now, he admits he lost sight of proper work-life balance

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Ron Schneidermann, CEO of test prep company Acely, is urging Gen Z to do it differently.

The grind to success can be long, punishing, and it can quietly take more than it gives.

After scaling his first company, Liftopia, into a business with more than $60 million in annual revenue, he went on to become CEO of AllTrails, the popular hiking map app. Today, he leads test-prep startup Acely. But looking back across his career, he says he had to learn the hard way what real work-life balance actually costs—and what it’s worth.

While building Liftopia, a digital marketplace for ski resorts, that mindset came at a personal price. Schneidermann worked out of a cramped San Francisco apartment, turned spending less than $15 a day into a kind of endurance test, and went two years without taking a salary, surviving largely on canned soup.

The tradeoffs even extended into his family life. When his first daughter was born four years into Liftopia, he took just two days off work.

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