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Don’t stop learning: How Cornerstone kept scaling, w/Adam Miller

Masters of Scale

English - June 13, 2024 09:00 - 33 minutes - 30.2 MB - ★★★★★ - 3.7K ratings
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Founded at the dawn of the dot-com era, entrepreneur Adam Miller’s original concept for Cornerstone was a kind of Netflix for adult education: training courses through CD-ROMs. Migrating to online offerings for major corporate clients, Adam steered the company through tough times that included an encounter with a loan shark, markets collapsing, and global crises. By the time he sold the company two decades later – for more than $5.2 billion – Adam learned essential lessons about how to scale during uncertainty.

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