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Anna Wintour and Reece Duca | Colossus Weekly

November 12, 2023

Best of the Week

Weekly Episode Recap

Episode Highlights

  1. “Your employees want you to be decisive, concise, and easy to understand.” Founders 

  1. “Your physical location should match your level of ambition.” Founders 

  1. “Culture is what happens when you’re not in the room.” Art of Investing

  1. “You need to embrace chaos from time to time. Concise plans are often precisely wrong. Optionality has a lot of value.” Art of Investing

  1. “I think it’s intellectually dishonest to say you’re founder-friendly and tout that as some sort of plus for the founder. That’s not the job of an investor.” Invest Like the Best

  1. “There’s so much more pressure on you when your company is growing fast, compared to when it’s struggling. There’s money sitting on the table and everybody can smell it. They see it and they want it.” Invest Like the Best 

  1. “You have to hustle until you fall over. Don’t take no for an answer. If someone says it’s impossible, you say, “That’s great”, and move onto the next person.” Invest Like the Best

  1. “Get obsessed with the process of improving. That’s the trick to life. It’s not about winning because you’re going to lose sometimes.” Making Markets

  1. “FedEx has more impact on the US economy than 99.9% of other businesses.” Business Breakdowns

  1. “Fred Smith’s time horizon was so long that it often put off the sell-side.” Business Breakdowns

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