Entrepreneur Andy Dunn’s path to selling Bonobos to Walmart for $310 million in 2017 included a severe Bipolar I episode the previous year, followed by hospitalization, treatment and a gradual recovery. Diagnosed at Northwestern University in 1999, Dunn says the high-energy traits that helped him build a fast-growing e-commerce company sometimes overlapped with hypomania (a sustained elevated or irritable mood). After the 2016 episode, he began medication and therapy, monitors his sleep and routine, sees a doctor weekly and has not missed a day of medication for the past decade. Dunn later founded Pie, a social platform focused on reducing loneliness and helping people form offline connections. The company, founded in 2020, now operates across all 50 U.S. states and 100 cities, has raised $24 million and counts more than 310,000 users, while Nadya Okamoto joined as a co-founder in July.