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Alexandra Sternlicht

Bonobos’ Andy Dunn says that founders should tell VCs about mental health diagnoses

(Credit: Steven Vargo for Fortune)

Andy Dunn is perhaps best known for founding menswear company Bonobos, selling it to Walmart with a $310 million price tag in 2018. After leaving Walmart in 2020 to focus on his venture shop Red Swan and social media company Pie (previously called Pumpkin Pie), Dunn has become vocal about how his mental health struggles have affected him as a founder and leader. 

“Entrepreneurship has a way of producing mental health crises,” Dunn said during a private lunch panel with Fortune’s Founders Forum at the publication's Brainstorm Tech summit in Park City, Utah. “Everyone's going to go through multiple acute moments of mental distress, even if they have the ‘cleanest bill of mental health.’”

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