Business wisdom from Ted Leonsis

I have an affinity for listening to the “how I did it” stories of leaders. It’s one of the reasons I volunteer with the local chapter of The Entrepreneurs Club of America. Rather than just getting a pedagogical list of "how-to’s" (who wants to be preached to?), a story allows us to take away the things we need for our own businesses by applying our own context.

I recently re-listened to Ted Leonsis’ 2008 interview on Leaders Portfolio. Leonsis is a genuinely successful entrepreneur: At 24, he started his first company — raising $1 million of venture capital — and then sold it two years later for $60 million...

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