Cerebras CEO says it’s “mind-boggling” that people think working 38 hours a week leads to greatness

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Cerebras CEO Andrew Feldman says work-life balance and building something extraordinary are incompatible. “It’s every waking minute.” Cerebras is valued at $49.5B. He joins Sergey Brin and Meta’s Bosworth in pushing longer hours.

Andrew Feldman, cofounder and CEO of AI chip company Cerebras, says it is “mind-boggling” that people believe they can achieve greatness while working 38 hours a week. “This notion that somehow you can build something extraordinary by working 38 hours a week and having work-life balance, that is mind-boggling to me,” he said on the 20VC podcast. “It’s not true in any part of life.” The path to building something from nothing, he added, is not part-time work. “It’s every waking minute.”

Feldman runs a company now valued at roughly $49.5 billion. Cerebras raised $5.55 billion in the biggest US tech IPO since Snowflakeearlier this year, and...

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