Startup A Love Story: Burn the Resume with Tanay Mandelia

A young founder walks away from the safe path and builds a startup with his closest friend, only to discover that success comes with a cost no pitch deck ever mentions.

Set inside India’s startup ecosystem, this book isn’t about how to build a company - it’s about what building one does to you: the ambition that turns obsessive, friendships that quietly fracture, love that arrives at the wrong time, and decisions that reshape identity.

Raw, fast-paced, and deeply human, it’s a story for anyone who dreams bigger than their circumstances and wants to understand what that dream really demands - before the applause fades.

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