{"id":108397,"date":"2025-12-06T21:27:30","date_gmt":"2025-12-06T21:27:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/paydonline.com\/index.php\/2025\/12\/06\/i-quit-college-at-21-to-run-my-ai-company-sacrifices-like-working-up-to-80-hour-weeks-while-i-had-cancer-were-worth-it-3\/"},"modified":"2025-12-06T21:27:30","modified_gmt":"2025-12-06T21:27:30","slug":"i-quit-college-at-21-to-run-my-ai-company-sacrifices-like-working-up-to-80-hour-weeks-while-i-had-cancer-were-worth-it-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/paydonline.com\/index.php\/2025\/12\/06\/i-quit-college-at-21-to-run-my-ai-company-sacrifices-like-working-up-to-80-hour-weeks-while-i-had-cancer-were-worth-it-3\/","title":{"rendered":"I quit college at 21 to run my AI company. Sacrifices like working up to 80-hour weeks while I had cancer were worth it."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with 26-year-old David Kobrosky, the founder of Intros AI, from Brooklyn. The following has been edited for length and clarity.<br \/>\nWhen I went to colleg\u2026 [<a href='https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/dropped-out-of-college-ai-founder-sacrifice-trade-off-cancer-2025-11' target='_blank'>read more<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with 26-year-old David Kobrosky, the founder of Intros AI, from Brooklyn. The following has been edited for length and clarity. When I went to colleg\u2026 [read more]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_thumbnail_ext_url":["https:\/\/i.insider.com\/690caea921c3f142ebfc327a?width=1200&format=jpeg"],"post_views_count":["34"],"_jetpack_related_posts_cache":["a:1:{s:32:\"8f6677c9d6b0f903e98ad32ec61f8deb\";a:2:{s:7:\"expires\";i:1782353929;s:7:\"payload\";a:3:{i:0;a:1:{s:2:\"id\";i:82900;}i:1;a:1:{s:2:\"id\";i:83209;}i:2;a:1:{s:2:\"id\";i:83515;}}}}"]},"categories":[93],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-108397","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-make-money"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/paydonline.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108397","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/paydonline.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/paydonline.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paydonline.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=108397"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/paydonline.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108397\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/paydonline.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=108397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paydonline.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=108397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paydonline.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=108397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}