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Silos are the death nail of moving fast, says EY's former CEO
8 principles: why he got the top job as "the lowest common denominator," how a 39-year-old contradicted his own Treasury secretary in front of Bush, and…
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Over 70% of 15M Kohl's shoppers buy Sephora nowhere else, its CEO finds
9 takeaways: how a foster-care childhood shaped her leadership, why Sephora restored informal makeup application, and the three tests she uses to pick a…
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ABA chair: at 23 she ran her father's bank from behind a hired male president
8 moments: buying a failing bank on the tail of her own plane, 1,950 mortgages a year from a $500M bank, and why banks need a seat at the table on AI…
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Sierra went from $200M to $400M of ARR in 5 months, says its chief customer officer
9 lessons: Sierra is paid only when its AI agents resolve the issue, engineers stay on each account for life, and the "Elite Eight" who built its sales…
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Ro grew from a $250M to a $3B+ run rate with fewer staff than in 2021, says its CEO
9 lessons: why PBMs are "the appendix of the healthcare system," how Ro cut 20% of staff and then grew 100% a year, and why AI turns a specialist into a…
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"It would not shock me if we have 100 billion agents": Verizon CEO on network demand
10 insights: net adds up 9x after Verizon stopped giving away phones, $4B of edge-computing deals from old copper offices, and why he now assumes SpaceX…
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Bharti raised $18B in 34 months as Jio wiped out rivals — Bharti Enterprises chairman
11 lessons: why he stayed small through Reliance's 2002 price war, the Africa bet he calls crazy, and how big companies slide from managing risk to…
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Palo Alto CEO on M&A: "It takes four to seven years to build a good technology product"
11 principles: why Nikesh buys only the number 1 or 2 in a category, the 30-day roadmap test no founder has failed, and why AI's token pricing protects…
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Build so 60% works today and 20% is a bet on the model — Google Gemini's product head
11 principles: why Google's 14 billion-user products are its AI edge, why a first eval needs only 5 prompts, and why AI should bring the data while the…
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COVID took away one of the two legs payments stand on — Mastercard CEO
8 lessons: why Mastercard now calls itself the trust layer of the AI economy, how it split one global network into digital islands, and why half of each…
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A $200M underwear table grew into a $2B brand without AI models — Aerie President
5 takeaways: the daughter's question that started "Aerie Real," why Aerie won't let AI generate its models, and how shrinking 136 stores to 36 saved the…
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Tesla's revenue went from $2B to $20B in 30 months, The Founder Mindset finds
6 takeaways: why Jon McNeill thinks curiosity alone is worthless, what Elon Musk's "I trust their judgment" really means, and why he measures himself by…
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