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Synopsis
No one shovels more $h!t than entrepreneurs. Dig in!
In 2023, entrepreneurs started a record 5.5 million new businesses in the United States, lured by the siren call of life-changing wealth. But entrepreneurship is hard. Brutally hard. And instead of swimming in seas of cash, many founders find themselves buried under mountains of crap. In Shoveling Sh!t: A Love Story, Kass and Mike Lazerow share hard-learned lessons from decades of shoveling as co-founders and early investors in startups that have generated more than $10 billion in realized gains. As the cofounders of GOLF.com and Buddy Media, which Salesforce bought for $745 million, they’ve lived what they call the “imbalanced life” and have the scars and gains to prove it. Whether you are deciding to leap or have already lept, Shoveling Sh!t: A Love Story will teach you how to embrace the beauty of the struggle and use the tools and entrepreneur’s mindset to overcome the misery and uncertainty that awaits. Inside Kass and Mike’s raw and deeply personal stories are universal strategies for choosing cofounders, greenlighting and funding ideas, building high-performing teams, creating the right culture, and pivoting businesses before it’s too late.
Author Bio
Kass and Mike Lazerow are serial entrepreneurs and investors best known as the cofounders of Golf.com and Buddy Media, a software company that sold to Salesforce for $745 million. Since the sale, they have focused on providing capital and advice to the world’s most innovative founders, and have supported one hundred early-stage startups. They serve as angel investors and advisors to Scopely, which sold to Savvy Games for $5 billion in 2022, and Liquid Death, the canned water company whose “evil mission” is to make people laugh and get more of them to drink healthy beverages more often, all while helping to kill plastic pollution. Kass and Mike live in New York City and the Hudson Valley and have three grown children (Myles, Cole, and Vivian) and two rescue dogs (Cece and Gizmo).
