The startup story : an entrepreneur's journey from idea to exit /

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Author / Creator:Warner, Martin, author.
Edition:[First edition].
Imprint:[Place of publication not identified] : Ascent Audio, 2023.
Description:1 online resource (1 audio file (8 hr., 6 min.))
Language:English
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Format: E-Resource Spoken word recording Audio Streaming Audio
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/13713361
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Varying Form of Title:Entrepreneur's journey from idea to exit
Other authors / contributors:Cowley, Jonathan, narrator.
ISBN:9781663733597
1663733597
Sound characteristics:digital
Digital file characteristics:audio file
Notes:Read by Jonathan Cowley.
Online resource; title from title details screen (O'Reilly, viewed November 28, 2023).
Summary:In The Startup Story: An Entrepreneur's Journey from Idea to Exit, renowned serial entrepreneur Martin Warner takes a fledgling company all the way from zero to hero, selling it for $50 million after a mere seventeen months. It's a memoir of whirlwind entrepreneurial success, a nonfiction narrative that puts the listener in the CEO's seat, giving the feel of what it's really like to steer a company around the toughest of tracks and come out with a massive payday. A mix of Wolf of Wall Street, The Big Short, and The Apprentice, The Startup Story reads like a novel but is strictly a true story packed with entrepreneurial insights. It is a rollercoaster ride through the heaven and hell of the tech business world, populated by geeks, pirates, conmen, tycoons, geniuses, and fools. Forced to do everything at warp speed, Warner chucks all the accumulated wisdom of his own Entrepreneur Seminar out of the window on his way to a holy grail exit. Along the way, listeners piece together an entrepreneurial how-to (and how-not-to) manual, with each chapter traversing the highs and the lows of founding a growing company. It shows the listener how to build a tech company out of pure desire and dogged willpower, combined with some timely expertise.