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Shan-Lyn Ma: Daily Routine

Shan-Lyn Ma: Daily Routine

120-hour workweeks nearly broke him — now Elon Musk sticks to a (still wild) 80–90 hours.

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Jun 03, 2025
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When Shan-Lyn Ma was growing up, she had a poster of Kylie Minogue on her bedroom wall. Pretty typical for a young girl growing up in Australia right? What wasn’t typical was the poster right next to Kylie’s — it was one of Jerry Yang, one of the co-founders of Yahoo.

“I wanted to be like Jerry Yang, the founder of Yahoo,” the founder & CEO of Zola told Entrepreneur. “I wanted to be the founder of a company that shaped the world and had a big impact. Just the fact that he came up with the idea to catalog the worldwide web and give everyone access to the internet in a way that was fun and irreverent was something that moved me.”

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