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Gurugram Founder Says Marriage and Startup Work Have Blurred

Her LinkedIn post says strict rules to separate work and life made the couple more stressed, so they decided to accept overlapping roles and routines.

Overview

  • Parul Sharma posted on LinkedIn on Wednesday about marrying her co‑founder and the realities of sharing a life and a company.
  • She and co‑founder Sarthak Varshney have built their Delhi‑NCR creative and podcasting startup The BOSS Hub together for four years and are three months into marriage.
  • Sharma wrote that early attempts to draw clear work‑life boundaries increased their stress, so they stopped enforcing strict rules and let discussions and decisions flow between home and work.
  • She illustrated the overlap with concrete moments such as tension over a missed internal deadline at 11 p.m. followed by both laughing at a pet reel at 11:15, and a friend’s account of them debugging a video three days before the wedding.
  • National outlets picked up the post and social media responses largely normalized the couple’s approach, placing their story in a wider pattern of founders accepting work‑life integration when both partners run the business.