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1 week agoI'm 22 and worth $25 million. I don't regret sacrificing sleep, friendships, and college parties to get here.
When I wrote that maintaining a work-life balance will keep you mediocre in an op-ed for the Wall Street Journal in August, I didn't think my views were that controversial. I built my first company, Step Up Social, from my dorm room during my 2021 and 2022 sophomore and junior years at Miami University. I received thousands of comments beneath the article and on social media on the three-and-a-half hours I slept on average each night, the classes I skipped, the friends I lost, and how I outsourced everything nonessential, including cooking food, meaning I gained 80 pounds.
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