20VC: Corgi Insurance: The Most Intense Workplace Culture in America: 7 Days Per Week, Founder Sleeps in Office, Corgi Cafe Open 24 Hours a Day, 60% of First 30 Employees Have Corgi Tattoos | The Journey from $0 to $2.6BN Valuation in Just 2 Years

**Nico Laqua** (0:00)
If your days off happen to be Saturday and Sunday every week, then you will not have a place at Corgi. I don't sleep a lot. I think the average night, couple hours, probably three to four hours.

**Harry Stebbings** (0:10)
So you literally live in the office?

**Nico Laqua** (0:12)
Yeah, yeah. I have a mattress there, and I would rather measure my lifespan and victories than yours.

**Harry Stebbings** (0:18)
Would you rather Corgi was a trillion dollar company, but you died at 50, or it was a fail and you lived till you were 80?

**Nico Laqua** (0:26)
I mean, I think the answer to that is pretty easy. I get a lot of backlash. The death threats and the DMs, you know, people think I'm nuts. I think the number of good companies is very small.

**Harry Stebbings** (0:36)
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You have now arrived at your destination. Nico, dude, I am so excited for this. I was more excited, I have to admit, for this than I am almost any other show in the way that one, I think we align and two, I think we align on something that's rather different.