“Ali and Murti are exceptional startup founders, masters at pivoting. This is a collection of their stories. Aspiring founders will learn a lot from this—how to fail, how to get back up, and take another shot.”
— Andrew Chen, a16z.
“As Paul Graham observed when he started Y Combinator, he thought that startups are a test of intelligence. Hundreds of companies later, he realized that startups are a test of stamina. That's why when I think about my personal heroes as founders, I think of Ali and Murti...That story is what you are about to read in these pages.”
— Siqi Chen, Founder, Angel.
“This book isn't a manual for building startups. It's a manual for building yourself into the kind of person who can't be stopped. The tactics will help you, sure. But what they are really teaching you is how to metabolize failure so completely that it becomes fuel instead of poison.”
— Kushagra Shrivastava, Key AI, Xoogler, Google.
“This book isn't about grit as a buzzword or perseverance as some kind of anecdote. It's about what it really looks like to keep showing up through the false starts, the internal and external doubt, the existential fear, the taste of failure that never quite leaves your mouth...That's what makes this worth reading. Not because it tells you how to win but because it reminds you how to keep going when you are not.”
— James Beshara, Magic Mind, Tilt, Airbnb, Y Combinator.
