The Second Founder

By Reshabh Jha

Book Overview

Two boys make a pact on a water tower in drought-hit Marathwada: whatever comes, fifty-fifty, no matter what. Years later, Arjun Rathi is the face of a celebrated water-tech startup - confident, self-made, entirely his own story. Vikram Deshpande is the engineer who actually built it, and whose name appears nowhere in that story at all.

When a term sheet forces an impossible choice, Arjun signs without telling his oldest friend. He can't undo it. What follows is five years of two lives pulling apart, until a funeral, a discovery, and a public reckoning force Arjun to choose between the story that made his career and the one that's true.

A novel about ambition, credit, and what a friendship is worth once there's real money on the table

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0HJ2H3H77
• ISBN13: 9798906967213
• Release Date: September 2026
• Publisher: Notion Press
• Length: 166 Pages
• Weight: 0.37 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.0" x 8.0"