A Practical Way to Get Rich, and Die Trying, a candid account by the founder of what was one of the fastest-growing tech companies in America, about his raucous rise to the top, detailing the physical and emotional toll of success, in a cautionary tale about the extraordinary pressures young entrepreneurs face in the new economy.

80% of what it takes to win the entrepreneurial lottery is engrained deep inside ones mind and cannot be taught or learned. The remaining 20% comes from starting, trying, failing and getting your junk kicked in until you have a chance to do better the next go around. And even then it requires powering through hundreds of ‘I lost’ moments before you’ll see real success.

If you had asked me in my mid 20s if I thought I’d ever be successful or wealthy, I would have given a bold ‘OF COURSE!’ — but that would really just be my characteristic over-confident answer to hide what I really felt: that I was going to continue failing and be broke for the rest of my life.