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Story Behind “The Secret History” Part III: The Most Important.

Steve Blank

If you are a practitioner of Customer Development, ESL was doing it before most us were born. He was forced in to an internal exile to Groky (Nizhnij Novgorod) – a major industrial city closed to foreigners – about 300 mi east of Moscow in 1980 following his public protests against the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan.