<b>"A scathingly honest memoir of entrepreneurship''s dark reality... I would advise every entrepreneur--or anyone who dreams of becoming one--to read this book."</b><br><b>--Eric Schurenberg - CEO, Fast Company and Inc.</b><br><b></b><br><b>A young tech entrepreneur''s memoir of building his hugely successful company and the mental and physical price he paid for it</b><br><br>At the age of twenty-six, John Roa founded a tech-consulting and design firm that he sold for a fortune to the largest tech company in San Francisco, Salesforce. His account of his rise from a self-described below-average student, to becoming a poster boy for the ambitious, successful young entrepreneur, to nearly destroying himself in the process is the subject of <i>A Practical Way to Get Rich . . . and Die Trying</i>. Roa''s twenty-year-long journey from being dead-broke to wealth he never imagined is an absurd and often comical story of talent, luck, risk, rapidly changing technology, larger-than-life persona