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Why I Wish My Competitors Well And You Should Too

I’m going to start with a story — which includes a confession.
When I started my first company, I didn’t start with a grand mission.  The idea behind the business wasn’t transformational.  It wasn’t going to change the world.  Historians weren’t going to write about it after I was dead.  And all of that was OK.  Even though there was no grand mission — I was solving a problem and meeting a market need that I cared about. Wait, let me clarify that a bit.  I cared in the sense that if I didn’t solve it, I was restless.  I couldn’t let it go.