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Hacker's Edge: Breaking Rules, Beating Odds, and Reinventing a Life

by Ryan Merket

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  • Publisher: Comal Publishing
  • 15.3 x 22.9 x 1 cm

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He learned to lead in the digital underground, battled his demons in a Texas trailer park, and hacked his way into the executive suites of Silicon Valley. This is the unfiltered story of a non-traditional path to success-and the brutal cost of the climb.

Long before the world ran on code, Ryan Merket was a misfit kid who found solace in the flickering glow of a command line. His real business school wasn't a prestigious university, but the clandestine, global network of software crackers he led from his bedroom-a world that taught him more about management, operations, and motivation than any MBA ever could. That hacker's ethos-a relentless drive to deconstruct systems and find a better way-became his only guide.

Hacker's Edge is the raw, unflinching story of how that edge propelled him through a life no one could have predicted. It's a journey from a GED dropout battling a life-threatening meth addiction to a key player inside the walls of the world's most iconic companies.

In Hacker's Edge, you will discover:

  • A Raw, Insider's Account of Silicon Valley: Go behind the curated PR and into the real meetings, the political battles, and the cultural quirks of powerful tech companies, Reddit during its most turbulent period, and Amazon's intense, data-driven "cathedral."
  • A Founder's Playbook of Failure and Resilience: Learn the hard-won lessons from the front lines of startup life, from the brutal betrayal that sank Ryan's first viral company to the unvarnished post-mortem of his most recent public failure.
  • An Unflinching Look at the Human Cost of Ambition: A vulnerable exploration of how the relentless pursuit of success can impact our health, our relationships, and our families-and how to rebuild after the crash.

Hacker's Edge is a memoir for the misfit, the builder, the self-taught, and anyone who has ever been told they don't belong. It's a guide to finding your unique edge-and having the courage to bet on it, again and again.

Find your edge. Read this book.

  • Title

    Hacker's Edge: Breaking Rules, Beating Odds, and Reinventing a Life

  • Publisher

    Comal Publishing

  • Published

    September 2025

  • Weight

    223g

  • Dimensions

    15.3 x 22.9 x 1 cm

  • ISBN

    9798993101309

  • ISBN-10

    8993101302

  • Eden Code

    7351141

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