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#41 The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers

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The Exciting Value Is Tan Grass

LoudCloud has an agreement with EDS that you're going to pay us $20 million a year to use our software. The software winds up being buggy, so the guy in charge is guy named Frank wants to cancel the contract. He cancels the contract, opts where, and is basically dead on its feet. It's too fragile and new to survive this. So he tasks one of his employees, Anthony, with finding out while they're fixing the bugs, they have 60-day window to fix the bugs. They also want to find out what Frank really likes. This is Anthony's quote: "The exciting value is tan gram"

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