Startupland: How Three Guys Risked Everything to Turn an Idea into a Global Business

Written by Carlye Adler and Mikkel Svane

Narrated by Christopher Price

Startupland is the story of Zendesk, founded in the kitchen of a Copenhagen loft, and now a 500-person company with customers in 140 countries and one of the hottest companies in Silicon Valley. Zendesk provides customer service software to major clients. Much like Zendesks mission itselfto remove the friction, the barriers and the mystery in order to make software easier and more approachablethis book removes some of the myths about startups and startup founders. Instead of making things murky and complicated, this book inspires and empowers you to follow your own dream and create your own story. This book makes you want to go out and do somethingnot just because theres an opportunity in the market, or a path to make money, but because you want to build something that you believe in, are determined to design your own destiny, and understand that what you do matters. While there are books by consultants who tell you how to build businesses, or entrepreneurs now running billion dollar businesses, there are few books from people still in the trenches who acutely remember what it was like. Startupland is indispensable reading for all entrepreneurs who want to make their ideas the next big thing.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Ascent Audio
• Release date: Mar 24, 2022
• ISBN: 9781663705877

Carlye Adler

Carlye Adler is an award-winning journalist and New York Times bestselling coauthor/collaborator of several books, including Dear Founder. She lives in Connecticut with her husband and two daughters.

Reviews for Startupland

[Luke Cassar · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

Great startup story, and as employee number 6000 (or so), great to see how early some of Zendesk's core values of simple design and diversity were instilled in the company by the founders.