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Which Founders Can Realistically Do Multiple Things Successfully

Doing multiple things is really hard, but previously successful entrepreneurs can potentially pull it off by starting companies, and then quickly assembling teams to run them.

Garrett Camp, at Expa, for example, has spun out a dozen startups, but he is not involved in the day-to-day. Instead, he has a significant amount of equity in each, and then assembles a team to run them.

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Want to Run Multiple Startups? ·

The Startup Chat with Steli and Hiten

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