Startup founder Marty Kausas was at the office Sunday.
Where else would he be?
Kausas, 28 years old, recently posted on LinkedIn that he put in three 92-hour weeks in a row. He went on vacation once, he said, but flew home early because he was too stressed about work. His goal is to build a $10 billion company in 10 years.
The motive isn’t purely financial. “There are easier ways to make money,” Kausas said. It isn’t part of a social mission, either. “We built customer-support software,” he said. “It’s not like this grand vision that we’re saving the world somehow.”
Kausas compared his pursuit to a board game—one he wants to win. “I could be a programmer working at a big tech company,” he said, but “that doesn’t sound cool.” Instead, he has raised $51 million for Pylon, the AI startup he co-founded.
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