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Book Title: Shoveling $h!t: A Love Story About The Entrepreneur’s Messy Path To Success
Author:Kass Lazerow
Co-Authors:Mike Lazerow
Published:2025
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Entrepreneurship is brutally hard. Instead of swimming in seas of cash, many founders find themselves buried under mountains of crap. In Shoveling Sh!t: A Love Story, Kass and Mike Lazerow share hard-learned lessons from decades of shoveling as co-founders and early investors in startups that have generated more than $10 billion in realized gains. As the co-founders of GOLF.com and Buddy Media, which Salesforce bought for $745 million, they’ve lived the “Imbalanced Life” and have the scars and gains to prove it. Whether you’re deciding to leap or have already lept, their book will teach you to embrace the beauty of the struggle and use the tools and entrepreneur’s mindset to overcome the misery and uncertainty that awaits. Their raw, deeply personal stories are universal strategies for choosing cofounders, greenlighting and funding ideas, building high-performing teams, creating the right culture, and pivoting businesses before it’s too late.