Category: Book

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I’m Ending My Tenure on Moz’s Board & Welcoming Tara Reed and Asia Orangio

Rand FishkinBy Rand Fishkin
The short, short version: After stepping down as CEO in 2014 and leaving the company in 2018, as of a signature earlier today, I’m officially off Moz’s board of directors. The incredibly impressive CEO & founder of DemandMaven, Asia (Matos) Orangio accepted my offer to fill the chairperson seat. Simultaneously, I nominated Apps Without Code‘s extraordinary founder and CEO, Tara…
Book Startups

I Wrote a Weird Kind of Business Book

Rand FishkinBy Rand Fishkin
For the last two years, I’ve been working on a book about what it’s like to build a tech startup and how Silicon Valley’s startup culture biases founders and companies to make a lot of poor decisions. That book, Lost and Founder, comes out in 14 days… I’m the usual mix of excitement and nervousness, elation and fear. The face…
Book

It’s Official: I’m Writing a Book that Will Be Published by Penguin/Random House’s Portfolio

Rand FishkinBy Rand Fishkin
Last week, I went to New York to pitch a book about transparency, startup struggles, and the last 15 years of Moz’s story to publishers. It wasn’t dissimilar from the VC-pitching process; lots of nervousness, waiting, hoping, and tension. But, midday Wednesday, after meetings on Monday and Tuesday, I received a phone call from my agent, Sylvie, with exciting news.…

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