Vaynerchuk: Exploring niche rabbit holes builds essential pattern recognition for CEOs
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Gary Vaynerchuk (founder of VaynerX and VaynerMedia) discusses with Bob Safian how deep exploratory dives generate the contextual data points required for executive decision-making.
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“Going down rabbit holes became data points and context to other moments of going down rabbit holes that allowed me to either bail early, pattern recognition, or triple down on an opportunity, and so, you know, I'm a, I really don't know how a CEO or entrepreneur sees the world in any other way. I feel like that's their responsibility.”
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