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Paul Orlando

Paul Orlando

Director of the USC Marshall/Greif Incubator and adjunct professor of entrepreneurship at USC, author of "Why Now?" and "Growth Units"

Jul 6, 2026

8:53
Of course, the challenge to the initial question that I ask is, how do we do a case study like this in a way where we restrict ourselves to the knowledge that was available at the time? Again, so that we don't apply that hindsight lens.
9:07
Absolutely.
9:08
So there is a way to do this or at least to try to keep yourself honest.
9:13
So one of the case studies I did – and so we could talk about Uber.
9:16
We could talk about YouTube.
9:18
And I'm not calling these out because they just happen to be like massive companies and we can kind of look back with some certainty.
9:26
Hey, this did work out, right? That's not a question anymore.
14:18
Is it like a scoring? It's like, are you adding up the number of timing drivers? Are you also asking yourself why not now? What's the way to use a framework like this?

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