About Born to Disrupt (the book)

Born to Disrupt is the book that reframes startup life through the lens of rock and roll — where chaos meets creation and the only constant is reinvention. If you’re searching for a straight-talking Born to Disrupt book description: it’s what happens when founders stop pretending to be superheroes and start acting like musicians — improvising, experimenting, bombing on stage, and still coming back for the encore.

From raising millions to building hydrogen startups and battling boardroom politics, Tim Harper has lived every cliché of the innovation world — and blown most of them up. Across chapters that mix personal war stories with lessons from deep-tech frontlines, Born to Disrupt dives into what it really takes to build when the playbook doesn’t exist.

You’ll find riffs on:

• Cockroach capitalism — why survival beats scale.
• Mixing-desk leadership — how to tune a team when everything’s feeding back.
• Field notes from failure — the brutal honesty missing from most business books.

Part memoir, part field manual, and part backstage pass, Born to Disrupt is for founders, investors, and leaders who thrive on noise, not polish. Start with the free extracts, or say hello on LinkedIn to join the tour news.

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