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Gary Vaynerchuk

Gary Vaynerchuk

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The Entrepreneur's Birthright: Born, Not Made

A sharp critique of the startup boom of the mid-2010s, where easy capital and cultural mythology created a false sense that entrepreneurship is learnable by anyone. The writer argues that successful entrepreneurs possess an innate set of traits—salesmanship, hunger, independence, consumer intuition, and patience—that cannot be manufactured through effort alone.

Staff · 8 September 2017
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