Andy Dunn
Entrepreneur · Investor · Author
Andy Dunn is an entrepreneur, investor and author best known as the co-founder and longtime CEO of the menswear company Bonobos. He is also the author of the memoir Burn Rate: Launching a Startup and Losing My Mind. [1][8]
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Career and work
Dunn co-founded Bonobos in 2007 while studying at Stanford Graduate School of Business and served as its CEO through the company’s acquisition by Walmart in 2017. Bonobos became an early digitally native consumer brand and later developed an inventory-free retail model in which customers could try products in stores before ordering them. [1][2]
Alongside Bonobos, Dunn became an active startup investor. Through angel investing and his venture firm Red Swan, he has backed more than 80 startups, including Warby Parker, Oscar and Coinbase. He later founded Pie, a social platform designed to help people form friendships and connect in person. [1][6]
In 2022, Dunn published Burn Rate: Launching a Startup and Losing My Mind, a memoir about building Bonobos while privately living with bipolar disorder. [8]
What has been publicly discussed
“I’m not bipolar. I have bipolar.“
— Andy Dunn [7]
