India, Sept. 16 -- An Indian software engineer has opened up about the upside of putting in long hours for his employer, even stretching it to 100 hours per week. Pranav Mehta is an employee of Mercor - an AI startup that pitches itself as the world's fastest growing company. He took to the social media platform X to reveal that Mercor employees often work 72 hours a week, and sometimes even 100 hours a week, but the awards are well worth it.

Yesterday, Mercor CEO Brendan Foody posted that the AI platform had scaled from $1 to $500 million in revenue run rate in the last 17 months, making it the world's fastest growing company in terms of revenue.

The AI training startup is targeting a valuation of $10 billion or more, according to a re...