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Anna Wintour’s biography turned into maxims:
1. Hire talented people as found, not as needed.
2. Taste is as rare as a unicorn.
3.Your employees should describe you as “easy to understand.”
4.Pretend to be completely in control and people will assume that you are.
5.Have a sharp eye for the weaknesses of others.
6.Combine ruthless efficiency with hyp... See more
1. Hire talented people as found, not as needed.
2. Taste is as rare as a unicorn.
3.Your employees should describe you as “easy to understand.”
4.Pretend to be completely in control and people will assume that you are.
5.Have a sharp eye for the weaknesses of others.
6.Combine ruthless efficiency with hyp... See more
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My notes from Anna Wintour’s biography turned into maxims:
1. Hire talented people as found, not as needed.
2. Taste is as rare as a unicorn.
3.Your employees should describe you as “easy to understand.”
4.Pretend to be completel... See more
I’m Jane Smith, the founder and CEO of Wild Widgets. Industrial Magazine named us Top Widget Maker of the Midwest, which was a huge honor in our business. I’ve scaled back from six to two staff and am looking to build
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This is Kat Norton, better known as Miss Excel. She has over a million followers on TikTok and Instagram, where she markets her Excel courses.
She has 0 employees and makes up to $100,000 a day. When we think of the future of work, it might look something like Miss Excel 👇 https://t.co/w4O70eHGme
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Ask Sophia Amoruso. Branding icon.
In this episode we go deep. Getting into how she built Nasty Gal from an eBay store into a $350M fashion powerhouse, bootstrapping to $28M in revenue, owning 80% at peak valuation (!!!), & crossing $100M in sales before... See more
Molly O’Sheax.comThe company personifies this era.And this was more or less [Weiss’] first real job, opening Into the Gloss and starting in Glossier, and then it became this, literally, billion dollar company, which is remarkable.
After the Gloss: What’s Next for Emily Weiss
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