
About this episode
It took Robin Kovitz fours years to find her business, which she has built into an industry leader and her life's work.
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Topics in Robin’s interview:
- Upbringing in the meat industry
- Early career in investment banking and M&A
- Her 4-year search for a business
- Always visit the competitors
- Critique of the 2-year search clock
- "Long-termism" and becoming a B Corp
- Her 3 non-negotiables
- Turning around the gift basket business
- Solving their storage problem
- The payoff and price of high ambition
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Edited by Anton Rohozov and produced by Pam Cameron
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