Brad Jacobs: How To Build a Billion Dollar Company

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What 12 Years of Failure Taught Steve Jobs About Success

We all know the Steve Jobs who came back in the late 1990s and saved Apple from becoming a footnote. And we've all heard the story of how, in 1985, he was pushed out of the company he'd created. What we don't know is what happened in between. Geoffrey Cain spent years reconstruct ...  Show more

Make Better Decisions by Fixing Yourself First

David Baszucki is the co-founder and CEO of Roblox, a platform built around a simple idea: give people the tools and incentives to create together. In this short conversation we discuss how a health decision saved his son's life and how it changed how he eats, why bureaucracy com ...  Show more

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