Lessons from the founder of Naked and Kosan Created by the author — original image provided by Joel Primus My introductory call with Joel Primus went well over an hour over schedule as we drifted way off-topic. As his wife put her foot down that he had to greet their guests, where most people extend
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Meet Jeff Bezos’s successor: Andy Jassy Created by the author — original image from Wikimedia Commons “No, I didn’t know what my job was going to be, or what my title was going to be. It was super important to the Amazon people that we come that Monday.” — Andy Jassy When Andy started working
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Tom Blomfield’s reminder that entrepreneurs are human too Created by the author — original image from Wikimedia commons “I’m very happy to talk about what’s gone on with me, because I don’t think people do it enough” — Tom Blomfield, Founder of Monzo He’s absolutely right. If you read enough entrepreneurship advice, you’ll realize many
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“The greatest victory is that which requires no battle” Created by the author from Wikimedia Commons and PxHere Sun Tzu’s Art of War is a short book. You can read it quickly, tick it off and boast about it. Or you could read it slowly and painfully and learn something about yourself. I initially read it while I was deep
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Whitney Wolfe Herd bounced back after terrible abuse Created by the author — original image from Wikimedia Commons Some people believe lightning doesn’t strike twice in business. I’d tell them Whitney Wolfe Herd’s story to prove them wrong. She not only co-founded America’s most popular dating app (Tinder) but several years later she founded the
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Don’t imprison yourself Not Edith, unfortunately | edited by the author | original image pixabay At 18 years old, Edith Eger lay in a pile of corpses with a broken back, typhoid and pneumonia. Thankfully, for humanity, she survived and has blessed the world with her psychological research. You need to know there is a
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Not all of his decisions were perfect Created by the author — original image Wikimedia Commons Prepare the world’s smallest violin. When Steve Jobs died he was worth only $10.4bn and only $2.2bn was Apple stock. The man many consider the greatest entrepreneur of all time wouldn’t have even made it to the global top
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And 13k followers as a complete beginner Created by the author. I’m sick of most advice about Medium. I started 2020 as a complete beginner and read a ton of bad advice that I was too inexperienced to ignore. Despite what people say, top writer tags claps, and read ratios are noise and don’t mean
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For humans who want easy ways to live better Created by the author — original image from Pexels It feels like everyone is taking on some kind of crazy challenge at the moment. This isn’t one of those 30-day challenges where you need to wake up at an ungodly hour or put your body through torture.
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It goes deeper than one disgruntled billionaire Created and edited by the author Silicon Valley has been unquestionably the place to be for aspiring tech entrepreneurs for decades. The whole industry has seemed to revolve around the Bay Area of California. Yet 2020 has challenged many things we thought permanent and Silicon Valley’s dominance is
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