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What Founders Really Need to Grow (Hint: It’s Not Profit)

Ask most people what a growing business needs and they’ll say profit. Ask founders, and you get a very different answer.

In this episode from our University of Reading research sessions, Layla shares what she found after studying founders who bought their businesses back from corporations, including Leon, and charting 59 founder interviews. Profit as a measure of success came up 11 times. Getting external support early came up more than 100 times.

David reflects on what that means, from the little details founders obsess over to why founder-led businesses know your name. Then he shares a…

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