How to build your company to last, w/Fiat's John Elkann
Masters of Scale12 Sep 2019

How to build your company to last, w/Fiat's John Elkann

Forget being a unicorn. Learn to be a phoenix. Your company can last 100+ years — but you'll need the resilience to rise and fall, and rise again. Fiat’s chair John Elkann shares the principles that helped the "horseless carriage" company founded by his great-grandfather survive the ups and downs of a century of business — including competitor attacks, leader shakeups, financial crises and more. One key: Resilience. Another: Deciding which company traditions to keep, and which to leave in the past. Featuring cameos from Radio Flyer's Robert Pasin, Cue Ball Ventures' Tony Tjan and ABC Home & Kitchen's Paulette Cole.

Read a transcript of this interview at: https://mastersofscale.com/john-elkann-how-to-build-your-company-to-last/

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