ANYTHING YOU WANT

This is Derek Sivers’ iconic and bestselling manifesto on lessons learned while becoming an entrepreneur. ANYTHING YOU WANT is must reading for every person who is an entrepreneur, wants to be one, wants to understand one, or cares even a little about what it means to be human.

Most people don’t know what they’re doing. They imitate others, go with the flow, and follow paths without making their own.

Best known for creating CD Baby, the most popular music site for independent artists, Derek Sivers chronicles his “accidental” success and failures in this concise and inspiring book on how to create a multimillion-dollar company by following your passion.

Sivers details his journey and the lessons learned along the way of creating CD Baby and building a business close to his heart. In 1997 Sivers was a musician who taught himself to code a Buy Now button onto his band’s website. Shortly thereafter he began selling his friends’ CDs on his site. As CD Baby grew, Sivers faced numerous obstacles on his way to success. Within six years he had been publicly criticized by Steve Jobs and had to pay his father $3.3 million to buy back 90 percent of his company—but he had also built a company of more than 50 employees and had profited $10 million.

Since 2008, Sivers has traveled the world and stayed busy speaking publicly and forming and nurturing creative endeavors such as Muckwork, his newest company in which teams of efficient assistants help musicians do their “uncreative dirty work.” Sivers writes regularly on creativity, entrepreneurship, and music on his blog.