Startupland Redux

By Mikkel Svane

If Startupland was a love letter to the opportunity and energy of building from nothing, Startupland Redux is a ransom note revealing the price.

Ten years after taking Zendesk public, Mikkel Svane had created $10 billion in wealth. In this brutally honest and oddly funny sequel, Svane reveals the hidden cost of building at scale: the addiction to power, the loneliness at the top, and the forces--activist investors, private equity, ego--that dismantle everything. He exposes what nobody tells you about leading a public company and why the hardest parts aren't about building the business but losing what you thought you had. A dark reckoning for anyone who's chased success and discovered it wasn't built to last.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0HJFNM26J
• ISBN13: 9798900262659
• Release Date: December 2026
• Publisher: Amplify Publishing
• Length: 186 Pages
• Weight: 0.81 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 0.6" x 6.0"