This startup founder says he works 7 days a week, keeps a mattress in the office, and sleeps 3 hours a night Corgi cofounder Nico Laqua (not pictured) said he has a mattress in the startup's office and often showers at Equinox. Maddy Grassy/Getty Images for ONIT Nico Laqua said he'd rather shave years off his life than see his startup fail. He cofounded Corgi, an AI insurance company, in 2024. Corgi became a unicorn in May, raising its Series B at a $1.3 billion valuation — before raising a Series B1 round at a $2.6 billion valuation three weeks later. To reach such heights, Laqua said he keeps an unusually strict schedule, where he works seven days a week, sleeps in the office, and gets around three hours of shut-eye. On an episode of the "20VC" podcast released Saturday, host Harry Stebbings asked Laqua: "Would you rather Corgi was a trillion-dollar company, but you died at 50, or it was a fail, and you live till you were 80?" "The answer to that is pretty easy," Laqua said.…