Dunnstack
Daily newsletter with hot takes and life lessons on startups, leadership, and culture -- from a founder of Bonobos, Monica + Andy, Pie, and Red Swan Ventures -- and the author of Burn Rate: Launching a Startup and Losing My Mind, a memoir on bipolar.
- Indexed issues, last 90 days
- 2
- Latest publication
- Jul 17, 2026
- Audience
- Checking…
- Earliest in this view
- Jul 9, 2026
Latest issues
What I learned from Patrick Radden Keefe's latest book. (opens the original)
Read excerpt
Zac Brettler was nineteen when his body was pulled from the Thames.He was a middle-class kid from northwest London. Good family. Loving parents. But in his final months, Zac wasn’t Zac. He was “Zac Ismailov,” son of a Russian oligarch, in town scouting investments for a father who did not exist. He talked his way into posh mansions and private nightclubs and the company of men with names like Indian Dave.Then he fell five stories from a gangster’s apartment into the river.Scotland Yard shrugged.
The face of Pie is no longer mine (opens the original)
Read excerpt
What do you do when your company takes off with a different generation than the one you belong to? Maybe you bring in a cofounder from that generation. A movement builder. A content creator with 5M followers. And most importantly: a power user who lives the mission, loves the product, and sees how much better we can become, together.Introducing Nadya Okamoto, cofounder and CMO of Pie. Here she is talking about why we’re joining forces:One of the most paradoxically humbling
Publishing over time
Last 90 days. Choose a month to open its work.
Recurring subjects
Named in the text we hold. One piece can cover several.
Audience
No verified audience measurement yet.
About this data
Counts cover the work we have indexed. Tone needs enough text and a confident classification. Excerpts and episode notes are not full articles or transcripts.
Identity or attribution wrong? Suggest a correction.