{"product_id":"hold-on-for-dear-life-9798240969294","title":"Hold On for Dear LIfe","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eShe called it \"not actionable.\"\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eHer feelings for him. Filed away. For three years. Because she \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003edecided - very deliberately - that what they already had was worth \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003emore than the risk of saying it out loud.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eNew York City, 2017.\u003c\/b\u003e Charlie, Jack, and Nik are three MIT \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003egraduates who have just raised \u003cb\u003ethirty million dollars in a single \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003enight from thousands of strangers who read their whitepaper and \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003edecided to trust them with something real. Their mission is genuine: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003efinancial systems should serve people, not the other way around.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWhat follows is the story of what that trust costs.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAs the cryptocurrency bull run lifts everything - including people \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ewho shouldn't be lifted - the three friends begin to drift from the \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eversions of themselves that started this. Charlie trades discipline \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003efor visibility. A secret trade placed at 3AM costs the company four \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003emillion dollars. And Jack holds. She always holds.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWhen the market crashes, a hack hits, and Charlie is taken off a \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBrooklyn street in a van, what remains is not a company. It is three \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003epeople who have to decide what they were actually building - and \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ewhether it is worth rebuilding from what is left.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThey scatter. They find themselves. They come back.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe answer to everything arrives in a four-minute phone call \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003efrom Manila.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eHold On for Dear Life\u003c\/i\u003e is a propulsive debut novel about \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eambition, friendship, and what survives when everything else burns. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWritten by a capital markets executive who spent years inside the \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003erooms the novel describes - the ICO launches, the treasury meetings, \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ethe 3AM decisions - it is the first novel to get this world exactly \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eright.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFor readers of Accidental Billionaire (Social Network), Bad Blood, Daisy Jones \u0026amp; The Six, \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eand Fleishman Is in Trouble.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Osborne Capital Partners, LLC\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/01\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798240969294\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 370\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.94lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.82d","brand":"Annelise Osborne","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52774342787253,"sku":"9798240969294","price":14.44,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/hold-on-for-dear-life-9798240969294","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}