Kevin Ryan conceived Gilt Groupe by copying a French business model
Sam Parr · How to Reverse Engineer Great Business Ideas (Sam Parr, The Hustle & Hampton) · May 7, 2024 · at 10:36
Sam Parr explains the strategy of reverse-engineering successful foreign companies for domestic markets.
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“Kevin Ryan taught me that that's how he got the idea for guilt group is he saw that guilt was happening in France and he like took it into America.”
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