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Retirement and Redemption « Steve Blank

Steve Blank

Alone in a ski cabin with the snow coming down outside, and my wife and daughters out on the slopes all day, I started collecting my thoughts by writing a series of “lessons learned” stories that I had hoped would become my memoirs.

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Philadelphia University Commencement Speech – May 15th 2011

Steve Blank

My third story is about Failure and Redemption. In 1999… with the company’s revenue north of $100 million…I handed the keys to a new CEO and left. Now…a decade later… that course called Customer Development … is the basis of an entirely new way to start companies. I had just turned 20 years old.