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Marissa Mayer (Google) - Nine Lessons Learned about Creativity at Google

Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders (ETL)

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Don't Build Projects, Right?

I think the idea here is once something's taken on the full life of a project, it makes sense to really examine that before killing it. It's in those moments when you do something you're not ready to do that you learn a whole new skill set. So we were very focused on becoming profitable from a very early time, which was not true of most of the companies in the bubble. I've often compared it to a forest fire, which is, you know, forest fires are in fact healthy,. They clean out a lot of the brush and the overgrowth and all that.

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