Build the Damn Thing

How to Start a Successful Business If You're Not a Rich White Guy

De: Kathryn Finney

Narrado por: Kathryn Finney

The Wall Street Journal Bestseller featured in Bloomberg, Fast Company, Masters of Scale, the Motley Fool, Marketplace and more.

An indispensable guide to building a startup and breaking down the barriers for diverse entrepreneurs from the visionary venture capitalist and pioneering entrepreneur Kathryn Finney.

Build the Damn Thing is a hard-won, battle-tested guide for every entrepreneur who the establishment has left out. Finney, an investor and startup champion, explains how to build a business from the ground up, from developing a business plan to finding investors, growing a team, and refining a product. Finney empowers entrepreneurs to take advantage of their unique networks and resources; arms readers with responses to investors who say, “great pitch but I just don’t do Black women”; and inspires them to overcome naysayers while remaining “100% That B*tch.”
Don’t wait for the system to let you in—break down the door and build your damn thing. For all the Builders striving to build their businesses in a world that has overlooked and underestimated them: this is the essential guide to knowing, breaking, remaking and building your own rules of entrepreneurship in a startup and investing world designed for and by the “Entitleds.”

So good I have the hard copy + audible

The content is top notch. I wish this book existed earlier in my career, but I’m glad it exists now! This book sheds light on barriers and gives tools to break the barriers down.

Inspired by the story

It's good to have such a relatable business book in my library. I will refer to it often.

Funny, frank and full of facts

Kathryn Finney has spent her career navigating the choppy waters of startup land. This book gives practical, honest and often humorous insights into how folks can become better leaders and better business owners. The audio is great because Kathryn reads it like no one else could. It was a treat to have her in my ears.

I feel seen in this book

Great story and outline of how to build a business with insights that non-rich white guys don’t hear very often in the world of entrepreneurship. So grateful for folks like Kathryn Finney!

You won't know if you don't do it!

Great listen for anyone. Wheather your starting a business or just thinking about it. Love hearing true stories that show the good and not so good side.