Growth is the only common language between entrepreneurs and everyone else

One of the many things I've learned over the past few years is that when you put entrepreneurs, investors and anyone else around a single table something weird happens: they're all kind of talking about the same thing but in a slightly different language. Read More (TL;DR: growth is the only common language.)

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