Business Insider Tracks 3 Young Startup Founders' Sleep Over 4 Days as Silicon Valley Splits on Rest
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Updated · Business Insider · Aug 17
Business Insider Tracks 3 Young Startup Founders' Sleep Over 4 Days as Silicon Valley Splits on Rest
2 articles · Updated · Business Insider · Aug 17
Summary
Four days of sleep logs from three young founders showed sharply different routines, from AI founder Lance Yan’s 3-hour night to ed-tech cofounder Kavitta Ghai’s steady 7-plus hours.
The tracking underscored Silicon Valley’s split between biohackers who treat sleep as performance fuel and hustlers who work through the night on 996-style schedules.
Yan, 19, said he often gets only 5 to 6 hours, works late and doomscrolls in bed; his diary ranged from 3 to 6.5 hours and he linked poor sleep to skipped meals and low water intake.
Ghai, 29, refuses all-nighters and structures work around a 3 a.m. bedtime and 11 a.m. meeting start, while Boris Skurikhin, 26, also protected sleep, logging roughly 7 to 8.7 hours despite late-night videos.
Together, the diaries suggest young founders are not converging on one sleep model: some still grind through exhaustion, while others build schedules and workplaces around rest.