Twilio CEO Starts at 4:30 a.m., Works Sundays and Runs House Laps to Manage the Grind

Twilio CEO Starts at 4:30 a.m., Works Sundays and Runs House Laps to Manage the Grind

Khozema Shipchandler rises each morning at 4:30 a.m. The Twilio chief executive follows the same schedule nearly every day. He works Sundays too. And between back-to-back video calls he sometimes steps outside to run laps around his house. Just to blow off steam. The routine sounds extreme. Yet it fits the demands of steering a company once valued near $38 billion through years of market swings, cost pressures and now an aggressive push into art…

$38 billion Twilio CEO wakes at 4:30 a.m., works Sundays, and runs laps around his house between meetings to blow off steam

EXCLUSIVE: Forget work-life balance. Twilio CEO Khozema Shipchandler starts checking his emails at 4:30 a.m, is on the job until 9 p.m. and runs laps around the house to blow off steam in between. “The gap that I allow for me to not think about work is six to eight hours on Saturdays,” the Gen X boss told Fortune. He credits that discipline with making him CFO of a multi-billion-dollar at just 31 and now CEO of a $38  billion tech giant, insisti…