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Why Having A BHAG Is Critical To Your Company’s Success

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While studying abroad in Australia, a friend mentioned he had hauled away an old refrigerator for a hundred bucks. We started franchising and slowly expanded from Fairfield County in Connecticut over to New York. I had no previous experience in junk removal. It was one of those “Hey, I can do that!”

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Before that I was an equal partner in Kaggle, which is a popular data science competition community. So plenty of dark bits, but also this weird discovery that you can create incredibly close connections with people that I've never met before and build a global community of people who want nothing more than to help save lives.