Ryan Merket

Hacker's Edge (eBook, ePUB)

Breaking Rules, Beating Odds, and Reinventing a Life

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

He learned to lead in the digital underground, battled his demons in a Texas trailer park, and hacked his way into the executive suites of Silicon Valley. This is the unfiltered story of a non-traditional path to success-and the brutal cost of the climb.

Long before the world ran on code, Ryan Merket was a misfit kid who found solace in the flickering glow of a command line. His real business school wasn't a prestigious university, but the clandestine, global network of software crackers he led from his bedroom-a world that taught him more about management, operations, and motivation than any MBA ever could. That hacker's ethos-a relentless drive to deconstruct systems and find a better way-became his only guide.

Hacker's Edge is the raw, unflinching story of how that edge propelled him through a life no one could have predicted. It's a journey from a GED dropout battling a life-threatening meth addiction to a key player inside the walls of the world's most iconic companies.

In Hacker's Edge, you will discover:

• A Raw, Insider's Account of Silicon Valley: Go behind the curated PR and into the real meetings, the political battles, and the cultural quirks of powerful tech companies, Reddit during its most turbulent period, and Amazon's intense, data-driven "cathedral."
• A Founder's Playbook of Failure and Resilience: Learn the hard-won lessons from the front lines of startup life, from the brutal betrayal that sank Ryan's first viral company to the unvarnished post-mortem of his most recent public failure.
• An Unflinching Look at the Human Cost of Ambition: A vulnerable exploration of how the relentless pursuit of success can impact our health, our relationships, and our families-and how to rebuild after the crash.

Hacker's Edge is a memoir for the misfit, the builder, the self-taught, and anyone who has ever been told they don't belong. It's a guide to finding your unique edge-and having the courage to bet on it, again and again.

Find your edge. Read this book.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Comal Publishing
• Seitenzahl: 128
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. September 2025
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9798993101316
• Artikelnr.: 75375344

Autorenporträt

Ryan has founded multiple startups, two of which were successfully sold, an angel investor in hundreds of startups, and he was fortunate enough to join Facebook's Platform team in its early days. He later served as one of the first PMs and the leader of Ads Products at Reddit, one of the early members of the Amazon AWS Startup Team, and now helps high-potential startups at Microsoft for Startups. Ryan relocated to Austin after spending a decade in the San Francisco Bay Area to be closer to his family and to support startup founders in Texas.In addition to his professional achievements, Ryan is an active father to his two children, Charlie and Stella, a life partner to Jenn Merket, and always has his dog, Wally, by his side.