My Heart Has Been in It from the Start
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Steve Larsen
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Steve Larsen
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Tech entrepreneur Steve Larsen explores the threads he’s woven together to create an extraordinary life: family bonds lost and found, a pioneering career in Silicon Valley, a lifelong search for meaning, a passion for speed and adventure and a remarkable resilience through health battles that would have stopped most people cold. From wrestling bears to co-founding companies that helped birth modern e-commerce, from discovering a daughter after 39 years to losing a young son, from racing motorcycles across continents to surviving three open-heart surgeries, Larsen reveals how to embrace life’s full spectrum of experiences.
His story reminds us that everyone’s life is shaped by similar fundamental forces—our relationships, our work, our beliefs, our passions and our challenges. While the details differ, we all navigate loss and discovery, success and failure, fear and courage. Written with warmth, humor and honesty, Steve offers insights for anyone seeking to understand their own path and striving to reach their full potential.
©2025 Steve Larsen (P)2025 Steve LarsenLarsen was fifteen when surgeons performed experimental heart surgery on him. He survived that one. Then two more in his sixties. Now doctors tell him there can't be a fourth because his heart is wrapped in too much scar tissue. He's on daily antibiotics to prevent infections that would kill him. Every morning is genuinely borrowed time.
Most people would play it safe. Larsen built nine tech companies instead. His innovations helped power Facebook and Amazon. He rode motorcycles through eighteen countries and wrote about those journeys for top riding magazines. He had three children and lost one before the boy turned two.
What makes this book different is how it's organized. Instead of a timeline, Larsen divides his story into six threads: health, business, family, motorcycles, cars, and religion. Each chapter explores one thread while showing how they all pull on each other. It's the only honest way to tell a life this complicated.
The hardest sections deal with losing his son Eric. Larsen doesn't hide the pain or wrap it in positive thinking. Eric's death destroyed his religious faith and forced him to rebuild meaning from scratch. That honesty is rare.
The business chapters give you real startup wisdom from someone who lived through wins and losses. His success came from curiosity, relationships, and being willing to pivot when the evidence said to change course.
What I respect most is Larsen's refusal to claim everything happened for a reason or that suffering made him better. He shows how life actually works. Multiple threads pulling on each other. Health shapes business choices. Loss shatters beliefs. Risk learned on motorcycles translates to startups. Nothing exists in isolation.
One quote stayed with me: "Don't be afraid to pursue multiple passions, to question deeply held beliefs, to take calculated risks or to change direction when needed."
That's permission for the rest of us to stop pretending we're one thing, to embrace complexity, to weave our own threads even when they don't match the pattern we expected.
If you're building a business, navigating loss, questioning faith, or just trying to make sense of a complicated life, read this book. It won't give you easy answers. But it will show you what honest engagement with life's full spectrum looks like. Highly recommended.
A Life Woven from Six Threads, none are Straight
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