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Can you build a startup without sacrificing your mental health? Bonobos founder Andy Dunn thinks so
Bonobos founder Andy Dunn is back in the builder's seat, working on an in-person social media platform called Pie. But the biggest lessons he learned from
Dunn wrote a book called “ Burn Rate: Launching a Startup and Losing My Mind,” documenting the parallel processes of building Bonobos and figuring out how to accept and then manage his bipolar disorder. That interplay between mental illness and entrepreneurship is even more palpable for Dunn, who says that the state of hypomania — the high of bipolar disorder, as opposed to the crushing depressive periods — could be conducive to running a startup. “Here are the DSM criteria for [hypomania]: rapid speech, increased ideation, grandiosity, decreased need for sleep, ability to be more creative … more or less the central casting traits of an entrepreneur having a good day,” he said.
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