Tom Hogan is the author of Left for Alive, a novel, and coauthor of The Ultimate Startup Guide. He is the cofounder of Crowded Ocean, a Silicon Valley based marketing agency that helped launch over fifty startups, including many current market leaders. Prior to his time in Silicon Valley, Tom was a lecturer in holocaust and genocide studies at Santa Clara University and University of California, Santa Cruz. Married and the father of two daughters, he recently retired to Austin, Texas, where he now writes full-time. His third novel, The Confessional, is due out in early 2022.