Burn Rate

Launching a Startup and Losing My Mind

Burn Rate
Andy Dunn
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Hardback
h210 x 139mm - 304pg
10 May 2022 UK
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9780593238264
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The co-founder of the menswear startup Bonobos opens up about the struggle with bipolar disorder that nearly cost him everything in this gripping, radically honest memoir of mental illness and entrepreneurship. At twenty-eight, fresh from Stanford' s MBA program and steeped in the move-fast-and-break-things ethos of Silicon Valley, Andy Dunn was on top of the world. He was building a new kind of startup-a digitally native, direct-to-consumer brand-out of his Manhattan apartment. Bonobos was a new-school approach to selling an old-school product- men' s pants. Against all odds, business was booming. Hustling to scale the fledgling venture, Dunn raised tens of millions of dollars while boundaries between work and life evaporated. As he struggled to keep the startup afloat, Dunn was haunted by a ghost- a diagnosis of bipolar disorder he received after a frightening manic episode in college, one that had punctured the idyllic veneer of his midwestern upbringing. He had understood his diagnosis as an unspeakable shame that-according to the taciturn codes of his fraternity, the business world, and even his family-should be locked away. As Dunn' s business began to take off, however, some of the very traits that powered his success as a founder-relentless drive, confidence bordering on hubris, and ambition verging on delusion-were now threatening to undo him. A collision course was set in motion, and it would culminate in a night of mayhem-one poised to unravel all that he had built. Burn Rate is an unconventional entrepreneurial memoir, a parable for the twenty-first-century economy, and a revelatory look at the prevalence of mental illness in the startup community. With intimate prose, Andy Dunn fearlessly shines a light on the dark side of success and challenges us all to take part in the deepening conversation around creativity, performance, and disorder.
"Burn Rate takes us over the razor' s edge, the sharp line that sometimes cuts between mental illness and American ingenuity. Andy Dunn has written a riveting and soulful expression of the entrepreneur and given voice to the unspoken truth that entrepreneurial success is often rooted in dysfunction. This is a book for anyone interested in business and mental health. And, really, Dunn' s path to self-discovery provides a roadmap for anyone who has struggled with being human. Burn Rate blows away the haze of American Dream myths to reveal that, often, there' s a destructive mania that drives success in this country. "-Ev Williams, founder of Medium and co-founder of Twitter "There is nothing typical about this extraordinarily brave memoir. Burn Rate is a story on two parallel but not incongruous tracks: the rise of a wunderkind and his wildly successful e-commerce site and the underlying ' ghost story' of Dunn' s secret grappling with bipolar disorder. The result is a long overdue unveiling-a reckoning with a rampant mental health stigma that is especially pervasive in the business world. "-Susannah Cahalan, New York Times bestselling author of Brain on Fire and The Great Pretender "Andy Dunn' s journey of highs and lows, self-discovery, leadership, and life is authentic and too rarely showcased amidst the glitz and glamour of entrepreneurship. For anyone coming of age with big ambitions, Burn Rate is a real reminder of the learning curve of self-understanding and care that is critical to success. "-Jennifer Fleiss, co-founder, Rent the Runway "I finished Burn Rate in a day. Andy Dunn has written a beautiful and stigma-shattering account of his unseen battle with severe mental illness. Courageous and compelling, Burn Rate sheds light on the secrets that so many of us hold, but have been afraid or unable to articulate. "-Ariela Safira, founder and CEO, Real "With a brave spirit and authentic voice, Andy Dunn opens up an urgently needed conversation around mental illness and entrepreneurship. A page-turner written by a masterful storyteller, this book serves as inspiration to anyone who wants to live a fulfilling life in the face of anxiety, depression and mood swings. "-Justin McLeod, founder and CEO, Hinge "Entrepreneurship takes a certain breed-and Andy Dunn was born to build. Burn Rate is the incredible story of how he transformed his big vision for changing the way we shop into a pioneering startup-and how, at the most pivotal time, it almost all came crumbling down. But the book is also so much more than that. In Burn Rate, Andy opens up about the darkest parts of being in that 6th gear of entrepreneurship, revealing the pivotal role mental health can play. His raw and honest look inside his own head-and heart-will make all of us reassess how we' re really doing. "-Marc Lore, serial entrepreneur and co-owner of the Minnesota Timberwolves and Lynx
Andy Dunn co-founded the ecommerce-driven menswear brand Bonobos in 2007 and served as CEO through its 2017 acquisition by Walmart. As an angel investor and through his venture capital firm, Red Swan, Dunn has backed more than eighty startups, including Warby Parker, Oscar, and Coinbase. Dunn serves on the boards of Monica + Andy, an organic baby-apparel company founded by his sister, and the tech nonprofit Raised By Us. Named to Fortune' s 40 Under 40 list in 2018, he is a graduate of Northwestern University and the Stanford Graduate School of Business. He lives in Chicago with his wife and their son.
Status: Indent title, imported to order
ISBN-13: 9780593238264
Published: 10 May 2022
Published In: United Kingdom
Imprint: Currency
Publisher: Crown Publishing Group, Division of Random House Inc
Format: Hardback
Height: 210mm
Width: 139mm
Pages: 304

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