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Life & fun · November 28, 2014

Startupland (book)

3 guys risked everything to turn an idea into ZenDesk

Startupland (book) launched on November 28, 2014 with 173 votes, #98 of 1,965 launches that month and more than 90% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 11 years on.

What it does

Conventional wisdom says most startups need to be in Silicon Valley, started by young engineers around a sexy new idea, and backed by VC funding. But as Mikkel Svane reveals in Startupland, the story of founding Zendesk was anything but conventional.

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