The grind to success can be long, punishing, and it can quietly take more than it gives. Ron Schneidermann knows that better than most. 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. And 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 Li ...