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You’ll occasionally need their signature and will find yourself writing them an eye-wateringly large cheque whenever you pay dividends or sell the company. After the team-poaching mentioned earlier, the goal ended up being to keep productdevelopment moving while a new tech team was found. But that’s wrong.
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