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Be Like Ray Kroc? Or Not?

Growthink Blog

Kroc’s curiosity was so piqued that he got in his car and drove 2,000 miles from his Illinois home to Southern California to see for himself how they were doing it. In one of the great business heists of all time, Kroc negotiated with the McDonald brothers to pay them a mere $2.7

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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

Could they make businesses out of it? So, I kind of spent a summer digging around, looking under rocks, thinking about what their business plan could be written for any of this stuff. But then by my second year, I had a real interest in finance. Sometimes, I'm in negotiations with partners around revenue or something.