Burn rate : launching a startup and losing my mind
(Book)

In this "gripping" (TechCrunch), "eye-opening" (Gayle King, Oprah Daily) memoir of mental illness and entrepreneurship, the co-founder of the menswear startup Bonobos opens up about the struggle with bipolar disorder that nearly cost him everything.

"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 building a buzzy startup, out of his Manhattan apartment. As he struggled to keep Bonobos afloat, Dunn was also harboring a wrenching secret: a diagnosis of bipolar disorder he received a decade earlier after a manic episode in college. And as Bonobos began to take off, the very traits that had powered Dunn's success - relentless drive, confidence bordering on hubris, and ambition verging on delusion - were now threatening to undo him. A collision coarse was set in motion - one that would culminate in a violent night that nearly unraveled all that he had built. Burn Rate is a revelatory, ultimately inspiring look at the intersection of ambition and mental illness." ...Publisher.

"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." ...Amazon.