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Burn Rate

Launching a Startup and Losing My Mind

Currency, 2022 plus...


Editorial Rating

8

Qualities

  • Controversial
  • Engaging
  • Insider's Take

Recommendation

Entrepreneur Andy Dunn shares his journey of accepting his bipolar disorder diagnosis – his “Ghost” – while building his company, Bonobos, an online site for men’s clothes. In college, he landed in the hospital after a manic episode. Dunn and his family denied his diagnosis. His frantic workload as co-founder and later CEO of Bonobos sometimes hid his mental instability – until it didn’t. After assaulting his girlfriend and her mother during a manic state, he found himself hospitalized and then in police custody. His breakdown changed his world and his entrepreneurial journey, forcing him to finally accept his Ghost and deal with it.

Take-Aways

  • Former CEO Andy Dunn hid his bipolar disorder, his “Ghost,” for 16 years. Now he candidly speaks against stigmatizing mental illness.
  • Dunn’s mania first affected him after a college New Year’s Eve Party.
  • Dunn and Brian Spaly co-founded the online men’s fashion outlet Bonobos.

About the Author

Fortune magazine named Andy Dunn one of their “40 under 40” in 2018. He co-founded Bonobos in 2007 and later sold it to Walmart.