Tucker: The best businesses often arise in unsexy, overlooked sectors like accounting
Therese Tucker · Busting the Myths About Startup Success with Blackline's Founder-CEO · Jun 22, 2018 · at 4:20
Therese Tucker, founder and CEO of BlackLine, explains why enterprise software founders can find massive opportunities in boring, overlooked industries.
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“Because accounting is probably the least sexy field out there, and yet there's a point to that, because sometimes the best businesses are the areas that other people have overlooked because they're not terribly interesting, alright?”
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