Dark Side of Silicon Valley

Silicon Valley is known for celebrating startup success stories, but the road to get there is far from glamorous. In this eye-opening excerpt, veteran investor Marvin Liao pulls back the curtain on the harsh realities most founders face.

According to Marvin, too many entrepreneurs have an inflated perspective of how easy it is to build a unicorn startup overnight. The truth is, behind most headline-grabbing funding announcements are years of struggle and failure leading up to that point.

As Marvin reveals, the brutal stat is that 90-95% of startups completely fail. Yet we rarely hear about the painful pivots, co-founder fallouts, lack of progress, and wasted years of effort behind most Silicon Valley successes. It's a rollercoaster journey that takes a huge mental, physical and emotional toll on founders.

Marvin sheds light on this dark side of entrepreneurship that nobody talks about. He aims to set realistic expectations for founders on just how difficult, chaotic and uncertain the startup path really is. It's an inside look at the massive failure rate and depression that comes with chasing startup dreams from someone intimately familiar with Silicon Valley's harsh realities.