Andy Dunn

Andy Dunn is the co-founder of the Bonobos menswear-apparel brand and the author of Burn Rate: Launching a Startup and Losing My Mind, a radically honest and unconventional entrepreneurial memoir and a revelatory look at the presence of mental illness in the startup community. In intimate and insightful prose, Andy fearlessly shares his experience building a business while living with bipolar disorder, a diagnosis he kept secret from almost everyone for more than 15 years.

At 28, fresh from Stanford’s MBA program and steeped in the move-fast-and-break-things ethos of Silicon Valley, Andy found his calling with a new-school approach to an old-school product: selling men’s pants online. Against all odds, business was booming. As he hustled to scale the startup, raising millions in venture capital, boundaries between work and life evaporated. As Andy struggled to keep Bonobos afloat, he was also haunted by his “ghost”: the bipolar diagnosis he received after a wild manic episode as a college undergraduate.

For years, Andy had understood his diagnosis as an unspeakable shame, which, according to the codes of his family and the business world, should never be addressed. With his secret locked away, Bonobos began to take off, but he found that some of the very traits powering his success as a founder–relentless drive, confidence bordering on hubris, and ambition bordering on delusion–were now threatening to undo him. A collision course was set in motion, one that would culminate in a violent night that nearly unraveled all that he had built.

Dunn served as CEO of Bonobos through its 2017 acquisition by Walmart. As an angel investor and through his venture-capital firm Red Swan, he has backed more than 80 startups, including Warby Parker, Oscar, and Coinbase. Dunn serves on the boards of Monica + Andy, an organic baby apparel company founded by his sister, and the tech nonprofit Raised By Us. Named to Fortune‘s 40 under 40 list in 2018, he is a graduate of Northwestern University and the Stanford Graduate School of Business. He lives with his wife and their son in Chicago.

Anna Maltby

Anna Maltby is an award-winning journalist and editor who currently works as a freelance editorial director and consultant, fitness programming and performance coach, and personal trainer and Pilates teacher. Until April 2021, she was the executive editor of Elemental, Medium’s health and wellness publication. She was previously the deputy editor at Real Simple magazine and a deputy editor at Refinery29, and also held staff positions at Men’s Health, Marie Claire, SELF, Fit Pregnancy, Natural Health and Condé Nast Traveler. Her writing has appeared in such outlets as The Wall Street Journal, Cosmopolitan, Glamour, and O. She received her BSJ and MSJ from the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University. Anna is also an American Council on Exercise–certified personal trainer and functional training specialist, a certified prenatal and postnatal exercise specialist, and a certified mat Pilates teacher.

Lydia Dishman

Lydia Dishman is a business journalist who writes about the intersection of tech, leadership, commerce, and innovation. She is a regular contributor to Fast Company and has written for CBS Moneywatch, Fortune, The Guardian, Popular Science, and the New York Times, among others. She is coauthor of the book Survive to Thrive. Over the course of her career, she’s interviewed a variety of well-known executives including Diane Von Furstenberg, Gregg Steinhafel, former CEO of Target, Mickey Drexler, former CEO of J.Crew, Christopher Bailey of Burberry, Mary Barra of General Motors, Scott Borchetta of Big Machine Records, Alexis Ohanian of Reddit, Tony Hsieh of Zappos, and other luminaries such as Adrian Grenier, Romany Malco, and Tom Brokaw.