A practical way to get rich . . . and die trying : a memoir about risking it all
(Book)

"A young tech entrepreneur's memoir of building his hugely successful company and the mental and physical price he paid for it"--,Provided by publisher.

At the age of 26, Roa founded a tech-consulting and design firm that he sold for a fortune to the largest tech company in San Francisco, Salesforce. This is the account of his rise from a self-described below-average student, to becoming a poster boy for the ambitious, successful young entrepreneur, to nearly destroying himself in the process. It is meant to serve as a cautionary tale of the toll that entrepreneurship can take on ambitious young people unprepared for the physical and mental costs that "making it" can take. After suffering a psychotic breakdown from which he almost didn't walk away, Roe began to question the ethos that had brought him-- and other entrepreneurs-- to that dark place. -- adapted from jacket