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Andy Sparks

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Andy Sparks is the co-founder and CEO of Holloway, a book publishing and technology company. Prior to Holloway, we was co-founder and COO of Mattermark, a business analytics and database company used by venture capitalists to source deals. He is the author of The Holloway Guide to Raising Venture Capital (2019).

With over a decade starting companies, from a microbrewery in his college apartment in Ohio to a string of software companies in San Francisco, Andy hopes his writing can help founders the tools to make decisions that are good for their businesses, their teams, and themselves.

Andy lives in San Francisco, has Calvin and Hobbes tattooed on his forearm, and he hopes the COVID-19 crisis will end soon so he can leave his apartment. ...more

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The Complete Essays of Montaigne

by Michel de Montaigne

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Piranesi

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Skyfarer (The Drifting Lands Book 1)

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