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- Isn't it crazy that you could never have a business as successful ever again?
- I had dinner years ago with an entrepreneur who had exited a company that was an e-commerce company, and he had made the majority of their sales on Amazon.
- This is the early days of Amazon, when like you could pretty much just like list a product and it would just grow.
- And so since that point, he has not had a business that was more successful than that first one that he had.
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0:00Isn't it crazy that you could never have a business as successful ever again? I had dinner years ago with an entrepreneur who had exited a company that was an e-commerce company, and he had made the majority of their sales on Amazon. This is the early days of Amazon, when like you could pretty much just like list a product and it would just grow. And I remember [music] him saying this. It was because he attributed everything that he had in his life to the luck of things working out in tandem. [music] And the reality was that for him that was true. And for us it was also true, but we had crystallized the knowledge because we had wanted to study what made us successful. And so since that point, he has not had a business that was more successful than that first one that he had.
0:43>> [music] >> We have had everyone since be more successful than the first one that we had.