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From Sesame Street to Startup with Dr. Lewis Bernstein, former Executive Producer of Sesame Street and Founder of 3G

We have to find ways to make it entertaining and actually open the world, using the television frame as a window to the world. And that was the window we had. Our mission was to try and lift all boats so that young preschool children were much more prepared for school and in many ways, for lilfe.

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Elections need an upgrade. How we get there w/ Tad Milbourn, Founder of RankedVote

It's an upgrade to our election process. Right now, there's all sorts of lawsuits and shenanigans going on to get candidates on ballots or off ballots because of the plurality voting system.

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The most successful asset class of the last 40 years w/ Jon Staenberg, Founder of Agate Hound Fund

If you had invested in every search fund over the last 40 years, you would be getting a net annual return of over 35%, which would blow Buffett out of the water.

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The business of golf + building the largest golf community w/ Travis Schoen, Founder of NW Golf Guys

I stood up in front of a room of a bunch of golf association executives and was asked, "what do you do differently?". Golf is very much a "this is how it's always been done" sport. And we punched, "this is always how it's been done in the face".

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A better alternative to big coffee + building the world's most beautiful (and smart) coffee machine with Sahand Dilmaghani, Founder of Terra Kaffe

This helped me kick my two Starbucks per day habits.

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Finding joy in what you're building + building a Unicorn (Spendesk) and balancing transparency with confidence w/ Jordane Giuly, CEO and Founder of Defacto

You need to have fun on a day to day basis. I work for pleasure and for the pleasure of building quality stuff, quality product, quality relationships with your team, customers and investors.

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