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This Episode
What do you hold on to when everything you built starts to fall? Three friends. One impossible idea. Thirty million dollars raised overnight. And a question none of them thought to ask until it was almost too late. In the summer of 2017, Charlie, Jack, and Nik leave MIT believing they can change how the world moves money. Within months, they are exactly the kind of company that gets written about. Within two years, they are nearly destroyed by it. A Story About Everything That Almost Broke Hold On for Dear Life is a literary fiction novel about idealism, hubris, and resilience – and the long, difficult work of finding your way back to why you started. What waits inside: A friendship that almost doesn’t survive success A love story three years in the making A market crash, a hack, a kidnapping A debut novel by a real Wall Street and crypto executive Have you ever bet on something the world told you to walk away from? Have you ever built something with the people closest to you and watched the building change them? This isn’t a book about cryptocurrency. It’s a book about what survives when everything else burns – and what it costs to find out. Among the best literary fiction books written at the intersection of ambition, friendship, and financial ruin – this is fiction for adults who know that the hardest losses aren’t always measured in money. If Normal People stayed with you, if Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow lingered for weeks, this is the next book you cannot put down.
