Authors@Google interview

Livingston says she wrote Founders At Work as there was a lack of information about the early stages of a company.

I thought, the bankers and analysts at my [finance] company don’t really understand what happens at companies until they go public…the truth is, noone really knows what happens in the first few years of startups except the founders and the people who work there

She did 32 interviews over the course of two years:

I tried to collect this really interesting fund of experience for…people who are thinking of starting a startup, or want to go and work for one, or are just interested