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Commando Mindset: Business Lessons From 10 Years in the Marines - Ben Williams | E50

The Founders Lounge

CHAPTER

What's Your Why, Why Did You Decide to Become an Entrepreneur?

Marines' ethos is adapt and overcome, that's programmed into you from day one. I thought well why can't I apply some of that to the civilian world? Started our first business with Anne, who's my business partner now started writing for Penguin around self leadership. We were just building this really nice lifestyle business when pandemic came in. It was during this period that we started working with some amazing companies - Facebook, Barclays among them.

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