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Ari Meisel: Less Doing employs over 120 people, mostly specialists

Ari Meisel · EP 375: Dad of 4 Holds Secret to Buying Time, Clearing Your Calendar With Ari Miesel of LessDoing.com · Aug 3, 2016 · at 8:14

Ari Meisel breaks down the internal talent structure and team composition at Less Doing.

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“Fortunately, we're at a place now, we have over a 120 people on the team, only about 20 of those are VAs, the rest are specialists, and we niche way down, like we have somebody who just does A-B testing.”

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