What happens after the cardboard box?

Most books about entrepreneurship start with the leap. This one starts with the fall — eight years in the corporate world, walked out by security on a Tuesday morning, a failed e-commerce startup, two more companies with the same toxic patterns, and a pre-dawn hospital room watching a newborn son breathe with his fists clenched.

Ctrl + Alt + Life is a memoir about the real cost of changing your life: the relationships, the money, the identity crisis, and the moment you finally stop waiting for someone else to design your future.

Erick Chavolla went from corporate executive to founder of an international logistics company — not in a straight line, and not without losing things he can't get back. This is that story.

Honest. Uncomfortable. Necessary.

Includes 8 bonus chapters on money, fear, impostor syndrome, building a team, family, sales, networks, and 20 lessons the road charged him along the way.