Launching a Startup and Losing My Mind
by Andy Dunn (Author) Format: Kindle
The prime supporter of the menswear startup Bonobos gets serious about the battle with bipolar confusion that almost cost him everything in this holding, profoundly genuine diary of psychological sickness and business.
"Arrestingly real . . . the most remarkable book I've perused on hyper despondency since An Unquiet Mind." — Adam Grant, #1 New York Times top of the line writer of Think Again and host of WorkLife
Quite possibly THE MOST ANTICIPATED Book OF 2022 — Forbes
At 28, straight from Stanford's MBA program and saturated with the move-quick and-break-things ethos of Silicon Valley, Andy Dunn was large and in charge. He was building another sort of startup — a carefully local, direct-to-customer brand — out of his Manhattan loft. Bonobos was a new-school way to deal with selling an old fashioned item: men's jeans. Despite everything, business was blasting.
Hustling to scale the youngster adventure, Dunn raised huge number of dollars while limits among work and life dissipated. As he battled to keep the startup above water, Dunn was spooky by an apparition: a determination of bipolar problem he got after an alarming hyper episode in school, one that had penetrated the charming facade of his midwestern childhood. He had figured out his finding as an unspeakable disgrace that — as indicated by the aloof codes of his club, the business world, and, surprisingly, his family — ought to be locked away.
As Dunn's business took off, notwithstanding, a portion of the very characteristics that fueled his prosperity as a pioneer — tenacious drive, certainty verging on arrogance, and desire coming close to daydream — were currently taking steps to fix him. A crash course was gotten rolling, and it would come full circle in an evening of disorder — one ready to disentangle all that he had fabricated.
Consume Rate is a whimsical innovative diary, an illustration for the twenty-first-century economy, and an impactful gander at the commonness of psychological maladjustment in the startup local area. With private exposition, Andy Dunn bravely focuses a light on the clouded side of achievement and provokes all of us to partake in the developing discussion around innovativeness, execution, and confusion.
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