Dear Founder, Maynard Webb
Dear Founder, Maynard Webb
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Dear Founder
Letters of Advice for Anyone Who Leads, Manages, or Wants to Start a Business

Author: Maynard Webb, Carlye Adler

Narrator: Chris Ciulla

Abridged: 8 hr 16 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 09/11/2018


Synopsis

Wise, practical, and profitable letters to entrepreneurs, leaders, managers, and business owners in every field—from a leading executive, investor, and business founder.

More than 600,000 new businesses are launched each year. How can a start-up find the funding it needs to survive? When, if at all, should a company go public? How does an entrepreneur build and manage a workplace—and create a lasting legacy?

Maynard Webb has helped found, fund, and grow dozens of successful companies, and has driven strategic change at Salesforce, eBay, Everwise, and Visa, among other worldwide corporations. Known for offering savvy insight, encouragement, and a dose of reality in the form of engaging personal letters to a select group of business leaders, Webb now shares his lessons with the rest of America’s aspiring entrepreneurs—at any age and stage in their careers—in Dear Founder.

Featuring more than eighty inspiring, informative, and instructive letters, Dear Founder is rich with sound advice on an array of business topics, from turning your idea into a reality to building a culture, to reaching key financial goals. This audiobook is an indispensable guide to navigating the realities, risks, and rewards of being your own boss—and founding the company of your dreams.

About Maynard Webb

Maynard Webb is a cofounder and board member of Everwise, a mentorship startup, and a board member of Visa and Salesforce. A current investor in startups through the Webb Investment Network, previously he served as Chairman of the Board of Yahoo!, CEO of LiveOps, and COO of eBay. He resides in the Bay Area with his wife, Irene. Maynard is the coauthor of Dear Founder.

About Carlye Adler

Carlye Adler is an award-winning journalist and New York Times bestselling coauthor/collaborator of several books, including Dear Founder. She lives in Connecticut with her husband and two daughters.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Cindy on September 13, 2018

Every early stage founder should have this book on their bookshelf as it is an excellent reference manual as you encounter the wild assortment of issues facing startup founders, many of which you may not have seen before. Choosing to write each piece of advice as a letter was innovative and I apprec......more

Goodreads review by Jason on June 23, 2019

Really good book on leadership from a tech industry veteran. Transparency and communication is crucial.......more

Goodreads review by Dora on July 03, 2018

I love this book! If there's one book that's going to be handed down to generations to come in my home library, it's this one. If you're starting up a venture, a business, or you are an investor, manager and even if your wheels are turning about starting out a venture, this book will not only inspire......more

Goodreads review by Luna on January 13, 2022

the author has put the hard works into easy-to-read content, covering all the stages a company could have experience from startup. A book talking about what would a company experience from a start-up to (hopefully) becoming a legacy. It provides ideas and solutions to all issues that might occur in a......more