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Building The Machine Podcast Episode 5: Dan Kimerling Deciens Capital

Eric Friedman

In 2007, he was named the Anne Armstrong Leadership Fellow, a position given annually to the most promising young foreign policy professional. On Describing His Current Work without Naming His Fund/Investments. On Deciens’ Lean Operation. Dan has a B.A. with Honors) in Political Science and an M.A. On Dan’s Former Startup.

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Out of the Crisis #4: Carl Liebert, crisis veteran and radical optimist

Startup Lessons Learned

And then from there, I was running a fitness company on the west coast by the name of 24 Hour Fitness, which was private equity backed and quite a bit of debt. And the truth is that's yesterday and you don't really have the ability to change what you did yesterday, but what you do have the ability today, is to lean into this.

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Out of the Crisis #18: Sal Khan on institution building, solving the digital divide, and education as the lever for all decisions

Startup Lessons Learned

My name is Eric Ries. Sal Khan : My name is Sal Khan. And then a year out of school, I was getting married and actually in New Jersey, but my family was visiting me. They were coming from New Orleans, which is where I was born and raised. You’ve got to build equity value." I'm the Founder of Khan Academy.