AI startup founders tout a winning formula — no booze, no sleep, no fun
WALL STREET JOURNAL
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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