The Resilient Founder

Advance praise for The Resilient FounderThe Resilient Founder is the first step and essential guide in supporting founders through the dark nights of the startup journey. We understand valuations, cap tables, and exit multiples, yet we don't fully understand the mysteries of our mind, how it builds its resilience muscle or why it breaks down. This book highlights the importance of protecting and strengthening our inner core.--SCOTT KUPOR, Managing Partner, a16z and author of Secrets of Sand Hill Road: Venture Capital and How to Get ItThe Resilient Founder is an important work precisely because it speaks to the most taboo subjects in leadership: depression, burnout, and, heartbreakingly, suicide. Mahendra Ramsinghani, bravely, wisely, intensely leans into the subject seeking answers to what helps founders withstand the vicissitudes of the entrepreneurial life. Too often such topics aren't discussed leaving those who struggle feeling bereft, broken, and alone. You are not alone and this book proves that. Every founder should read this book. Indeed, every founder and everyone who loves them.--JERRY COLONNA, author, Reboot: Leadership and the Art of Growing Up.As a 5X entrepreneur, and an investor in over a hundred startups, I know the founders journey pretty well. It has its highs. This book can help manage the lows. It doesn't offer a quick fix silver bullet but starts with helping us understand our psychology. And explores pathways towards building resilience. We are all fragile. This book is the first step towards antifragile.--JOSH LINKNER, author of two New York Times Best Selling books, Disciplined Dreaming and The Road to Reinvention.In this day and age of unicorns, beneath the surface founders are dealing with extreme challenges. This book offers insights on how to not only understand -- but also effectively manage the founders most important resource -- their own psychology.--HARRY STEBBINGS, Founder and Managing Partner, 20VC