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I think the point is that your true passion may lay outside the market or problem area. In the case of Waste Management/BlockBuster/Extended Stay America the fo
by replicatorblog 10y ago
I think the point is that your true passion may lay outside the market or problem area. In the case of Waste Management/BlockBuster/Extended Stay America the founder seemed to enjoy taking local businesses and figuring out ways to get efficiency at national scale. There is no throughline between trash, videos, and depressing hotels, but there is in the business process that undergirds them.
- gpawl 10y agoThat's the much-derided "MBA" concept.
- replicatorblog 10y agoMailChimp is on the other side of the spectrum. A purely creative team took on the grubby problems of email list management and spam filter evasion and used the profits to fund one of the most creative businesses in tech.
- AndrewKemendo 10y agoYea that's what business schools are supposed to be about - creating "management people."