Hold On for Dear LIfe, (Paperback)

<p><b>She called it "not actionable."</b></p><p></p><p></p> <p>Her feelings for him. Filed away. For three years. Because she </p><p>decided - very deliberately - that what they already had was worth </p><p>more than the risk of saying it out loud.</p><p></p><p></p> <p><b>New York City, 2017.</b> Charlie, Jack, and Nik are three MIT </p><p>graduates who have just raised <b>thirty million dollars in a single </b></p><p><b>night</b> from thousands of strangers who read their whitepaper and </p><p>decided to trust them with something real. Their mission is genuine: </p><p>financial systems should serve people, not the other way around.</p><p></p><p></p> <p>What follows is the story of what that trust costs.</p><p></p><p></p> <p>As the cryptocurrency bull run lifts everything - including people </p><p>who shouldn't be lifted - the three friends begin to drift from the </p><p>versions of themselves that started this. Charlie trades discipline </p><p>for visibility. A secret trade placed at 3AM costs the company four </p><p>million dollars. And Jack holds. She always holds.</p><p></p><p></p> <p>When the market crashes, a hack hits, and Charlie is taken off a </p><p>Brooklyn street in a van, what remains is not a company. It is three </p><p>people who have to decide what they were actually building - and </p><p>whether it is worth rebuilding from what is left.</p><p></p><p></p> <p>They scatter. They find themselves. They come back.</p><p></p><p></p> <p><b>The answer to everything arrives in a four-minute phone call </b></p><p><b>from Manila.</b></p><p></p><p></p> <p><i>Hold On for Dear Life</i> is a propulsive debut novel about </p><p>ambition, friendship, and what survives when everything else burns. </p><p>Written by a capital markets executive who spent years inside the </p><p>rooms the novel describes - the ICO launches, the treasury meetings, </p><p>the 3AM decisions - it is the first novel to get this world exactly </p><p>right.</p><p></p><p></p> <p><b>For readers of Accidental Billionaire (Social Network), Bad Blood, Daisy Jones &amp; The Six, </b></p><p><b>and Fleishman Is in Trouble.</b></p><p></p>

• Hold On for Dear LIfe, (Paperback)
• Author: Annelise Osborne
• ISBN: 9798240969294
• Format: Paperback
• Publication Date: 2026-06-01
• Page Count: 370