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#11 The Investigator

Behind the Balance Sheet

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Is This a Mad Guy?

Yam marslek is a fascinating character, this austrian whiskered. He drops out of high school in vienna and goes to work for a textartup. It the late nineties, everyone's doing that, and he gets poched to join wire cut. But it turns out he's not quite as wizzy as think,. And he almost destroys the company, because he's working on this big project, but it doesn't work out. By that point, he's the only one who understands it, so he's too important to fire. In this sort of pattern repeats. He constantly takes the company to the brink of disaster, but somehow comes up with way

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