Om avsnittet
Founded at the dawn of the dot-com era, entrepreneur Adam Miller’s original concept for Cornerstone was a kind of Netflix for adult education: training courses through CD-ROMs. Migrating to online offerings for major corporate clients, Adam steered the company through tough times that included an encounter with a loan shark, markets collapsing, and global crises. By the time he sold the company two decades later – for more than $5.2 billion – Adam learned essential lessons about how to scale during uncertainty.Read a transcript of this episode: }https://mastersofscale.comSubscribe to the Masters of Scale weekly newsletter: }https://mastersofscale.com/subscribeThe Sequoia “RIP: Good Times” presentation: }https://articles.sequoiacap.com/rip-good-timesSee Privacy Policy at }https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at }https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
Senaste avsnitten
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