{
  "id": 1457058,
  "title": "We tracked how much 3 young startup founders actually sleep",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/17/we-tracked-how-much-3-young-startup-founders-actually-sleep",
  "topic": "business",
  "section": "Business",
  "published": "2026-08-17T08:41:01.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Business Insider",
    "slug": "business-insider",
    "url": "https://www.businessinsider.com/sleep-habits-silicon-valley-startup-founders-2026-8"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "Three young founders from Silicon Valley's AI startup scene - Lance Yan, Kavitta Ghai, and Boris Skurikhin - shared their sleep schedules with Business Insider. The article aimed to explore the impact of their sleep habits on their productivity and overall well-being.\n\nLance Yan, the 19-year-old Traverse founder, admitted to getting only 5 to 6 hours of sleep per night. He explained that while he knows the importance of sleep, he often stays up late to complete work tasks. This pattern was consistent across his four-day sleep tracking period, with sleep durations ranging from 3 to 6.5 hours. He acknowledged that his current routine, characterized by late-night work sessions and late bedtimes, was an improvement from his early Y Combinator days where he would wake up before dawn and sleep through the day.\n\nIn stark contrast, Kavitta Ghai, the 29-year-old cofounder of ed-tech startup Nectir, adhered strictly to a seven-hour sleep rule. She wore a sleep mask, took magnesium nightly, and maintained a cool room temperature between 66-68 degrees. Ghai wore a Whoop band to monitor her sleep, and she stopped working entirely when she recognized signs of fatigue. Her sleep diaries showed consistent adherence to her 7-hour rule, ranging from 7 to 8 hours and 2 minutes across the four days.\n\nBoris Skurikhin, the 26-year-old cofounder of AI startup Docket, did not follow a strict sleep regimen. He typically tried to fall asleep around midnight, watching documentaries or long-form videos while working through his laptop. Skurikhin did not sleep more than 8 hours and 40 minutes in any of the four days tracked. He acknowledged that constantly working without adequate rest was unhealthy, but he resisted adopting a more conventional sleep schedule.",
  "summary": "Business Insider tracked the sleep schedules of some young tech founders. Their sleep habits were wildly different.",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
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  "coverage": {
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  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}