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Faster iteration rate compounds success over slower rivals
Faster iteration rate compounds success over slower rivals
The rate of iteration separates success from failure; if one company learns every week and another every month, the faster learner will compound so quickly that the slower competitor will never matter.
- Speaker
- Max Hodak
- Source timestamp
- 19:57
- Context timestamp
- 19:27
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