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Gonzo Capitalism

How to Make Money in an Economy that Hates You

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Gonzo Capitalism

By: Chris Guillebeau
Narrated by: Chris Guillebeau
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Read by the author, Chris Guillebeau.

The nine-to-five is dead. This is Gonzo Capitalism.

From Chris Guillebeau, New York Times bestselling author of The $100 Startup, comes a captivating guide that explains how to thrive in today's turbulent global economy.


Burdened with piling student debt, stagnant wages, and a rising cost of living, a growing number of enterprising individuals are abandoning the traditional work model. Instead, they’re turning to an ecosystem of unregulated, decentralized platforms to build their own version of success.

In Gonzo Capitalism, serial entrepreneur and self-help expert Chris Guillebeau explores this brave new world – from the tech workers working multiple jobs at once to the British teenager who earned $500,000 naming other people’s babies. Through their stories, learn how to:

  • Make money from AI
  • Become a 'sleepfluencer'
  • Open a pop-up rat café
  • And much more!


With this inspirational and actionable handbook as your guide, discover how our turbulent economy really works and how to come up with your own unconventional ways to turn your time and talents into a better way of living.

'A must-read guide to the new economy. This book will help you navigate emerging paths to prosperity that you didn’t even know existed!' – Ozan Varol, bestselling author of Think Like a Rocket Scientist

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Critic reviews

A must-read guide to the new economy. This book will help you navigate emerging paths to prosperity that you didn’t even know existed. If you weren’t a Guillebeau fan already, you will be after this! (Ozan Varol, bestselling author of Think Like a Rocket Scientist)
A fascinating romp through the Wild West of modern capitalism. A field guide to not only understanding what's happening, but how you can directly harness and benefit from it (Tiago Forte, bestselling author of Building a Second Brain)
Guillebeau is the Indiana Jones of career experts (Gretchen Rubin, author of The Happiness Project)
Straightforward, and packs in lots of tips . . . An ideal guide (The Financial Times on Side Hustle)
If you're not ready to launch your own business after reading this book, you need to go back and read it again! (Daniel H. Pink, bestselling author of Drive, on The $100 Startup)
Smart, honest, and dangerous. Why dangerous? Because it is as practical as it is inspiring (Brené Brown, bestselling author of The Gifts of Imperfection, on The Happiness of Pursuit)
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Many interesting stories about people who have made (often a lot of) money in unconventional ways. Also interesting that the author have tested many of these firsthand himself. Recommended for people who might be looking for new ways to make money, but don't know quite where to start.

Unfortunately, the sound quality of the recording of the audio book is not very good. Comparing with the Side Hustle School podcast the author's voice sounds flat and scratchy. Otherwise, Chris' performance is great, and just as full of good (or bad) puns as usual!

interesting stories, bad sound quality

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It’s my second book by this author and I like him but this one is hard to listen to. One would think that a newer book would have all the technology needed to record the sound properly meanwhile it sounds like it was recorded on an iPhone.

The audio quality is so bad it puts me off

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