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18 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Business

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Over the years, we discovered that UK homeowners and tenants needed more domestic services which we added to our portfolio as and when there was a demand. And now, 8 years later, Fantastic Services has become a multi-national, multi-operational company working in the UK, Australia, and the US. 13- Out of discouragement.

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Out of the Crisis #11: Jeremy Howard on the power of masks, health policy, and data science in medicine

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So I was always doing linear programming and operations research stuff, and regression models and whatever to try to solve corporate strategy problems. So he said, "Okay, well you can look at all this human resources data for this mine in Ghana. So in that situation you should demand gold standard evidence not to do the thing.