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  • An Entrepreneur's Journey from Idea to Exit
  • By: Martin Warner
  • Narrated by: Jonathan Cowley
  • Length: 8 hrs and 7 mins
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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 unfolds 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.

©2023 Martin Warner (P)2023 Ascent Audio

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I should like it....But

I should really like this book....
But.... I bet the author loves the noise and smell of his own farts
But he's the one sitting there with $50m and I'm writing a review.

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The right place the right time

The book was entertaining an easy listen if not a bit brash definitely worth a read or a listen

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