After buying a buzzy tech startup and taking on its hundreds of employees, a San Francisco startup’s CEO is giving his new hires a clear ultimatum: Be ready to work ridiculously hard, or run for the ...

AI coding startup Cognition bought competitor Windsurf less than a month ago. Cognition is offering the 200-person team buyouts amounting to nine months’ salary — or stay and work 80-hour weeks.

Once in talks to be acquired by OpenAI for $3 billion earlier this year, AI coding startup Windsurf announced it is now part of $4 billion artificial intelligence company Cognition, after a takeover ...

Tatiana Birgisson and Jake Stauch are the COO and CEO of Serval, an AI startup that recently raised $47 million. They're also married and live together in Oakland with their 2-year-old daughter.

Silicon Valley has always glorified hustle culture. Some startups, like AI education company Arrowster, recruitment unicorn Mercor and Y Combinator-backed Corgi, are taking it to another level with 6 ...

The 996 workweek equates to working 12-hour days, six days a week, for a total of 72-hours. The practice is rooted in China’s 2010’s tech scene, though the country made it illegal in 2021. Still, some ...

The CEO of a crypto startup cofounded by Sam Altman thinks his company’s mission is so important that employees should care about their work and nothing else. Tools for Humanity CEO Alex Blania ...