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Shane Smith

Oct 29, 2026

3:20
Can you tell folks a little bit how you entered the business development profession and did you write the book?
3:26
Yeah, so it wasn't by choice, right? So right out of college, which was a long time ago now, back in the 90s, I think the culture of coming out of the business school at that time, I call it the Michael J.
3:43
Fox effect.
3:44
A lot of his characters really personified the mailroom to C-suite kind of climb.
3:52
And that's really what I wanted to do.
3:54
And I I didn't necessarily get the dream job that I had hoped to out of college.
4:03
And what that meant is instead I had to go back to the family business, which was a very strong, thriving business.

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20:53
right?

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