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Repeated entrepreneurship makes difficult work substantially easier
Repeated entrepreneurship makes difficult work substantially easier
Kalanick says experience across several companies has made tasks involving strategy, communication, and execution much faster and less stressful for him.
- Speaker
- Travis Kalanick
- Topic
- Founder Development
- Source timestamp
- 30:12
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