This 39-year-old tech exec has built 5 companies, but there's a price to his ambition

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This 39-year-old tech exec has built 5 companies, but there's a price to his ambition. (via CNBCMakeIt)

, helped Lamm land an internship at the biotechnology company Genentech, which also became his first client."My balance sheet went up my senior year," Lamm says. "My grades fell, because I was working a lot but I did end up finishing," he says.

Since then, travel has all but come to a stop. He also gave up alcohol, caffeine and became mostly vegan, he says. That's not to say he's necessarily down less work, though. He's just steering his spaceship, as best he can, from his home offices in Austin and Dallas, Texas.His parents separated when he was five and he was largely raised by his mother, Lori Armes, and grandmother, Marye Nella Armes , throughout Texas and in Fort Smith, Arkansas.

Now, from his perch as a successful serial entrepreneur, Lamm has to put in effort to feel contentment. "My biggest concern for Ben is making sure he has good work-life balance. He is so hard-working and has been doing it now for the entirety that I've known him," says McKinley. "I just want to make sure that he still has gas in the tank at the end of the day."

 

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