Earned: An Honest Look at Entrepreneurship—From Idea to Exit and Beyond - Softcover

Kubiak, Riggs

Softcover

ISBN 13: 9798986026015

Verlag: Raab & Co., 2026

Inhaltsangabe

Leadership isn’t given, it’s Earned.

The hardest part of building a company isn’t strategy, it’s the conversation you have with yourself when things start to wobble. The doubts you don’t voice. The quiet fear that maybe you’re wrong. The real battles of entrepreneurship happen in the founder’s head.

Earned prepares you for those moments when confidence and insecurity coexist, and you still have to make the call. Each chapter dives beneath the surface of company-building into the private mental negotiations that rarely get written down: the tangles of ego, fear, and identity every entrepreneur must navigate.

Tracing the full arc of entrepreneurship—from the first leap to building, scaling, selling, and redefining yourself after the exit—Riggs Kubiak draws on his own journey founding the real estate software company Honest Buildings, growing it into a venture‑backed platform, and leading it through a nine‑figure acquisition by Procore, where he spent five years as senior leadership helping it grow into a multibillion‑dollar public company.

Each chapter explores a defining moment: the decisions, mistakes, and inner negotiations that shape a founder long before success is visible. These stories and lessons combine to create a psychological roadmap for wherever you are in the journey to earn it.

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Riggs Kubiak is a builder, operator, and investor who's spent his career turning ideas into lasting impact. His career began in commercial real estate, where he saw firsthand how inefficiency and misalignment held back an industry he loved. That experience inspired him to create something better: Honest Buildings, a technology platform he co-founded and scaled nationally. It was acquired by Procore Technologies in 2019. Today, Riggs partners with early-stage founders and leaders across industries, helping them navigate the realities of building with clarity, resilience, and integrity. He lives in New Jersey and Idaho with his wife and two sons.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Raab & Co.
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2026
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 13: 9798986026015
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 274
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