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The age of anti-ambition.
Doing the bare minimum, retiring early and idling for pleasure is increasingly aspirational as a new generation opts out of productivity culture and an unhealthy obsession with success.
Redefining ambition through patience: Todd Masonis's journey from tech success with Sean Parker to founding award-winning Dandelion Chocolate
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And that's why recently I've been looking for someone that's ambitious, but just has a very different relationship with time, is okay waiting for things. That's how I met Todd.
Todd Masonis is the founder of Dandelion Chocolate In his previous life as a college student at Stanford Todd started a tech company with none other than the Sean Parker
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