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Anytime you see a constrained market, where consumption is limited to those who have special skills or are wealthy, that signals an opportunity for innovation.

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Scott D. Anthony
Age: 49
Born: 1975
Born: February 22
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The most important thing here is to largely ignore what customers say, and instead watch what they do or track where they spend money.
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I have a fear right now that what I call the advertising-narcissism complex is sucking up way too much top talent.
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It would be fun too to put some of the great philosophers and political scientists of the past couple centuries into a time machine, have them look at the world today, and see what they think. Imagine Schumpeter, Malthus, Hobbes, Nietzsche, Marx, and more! That would be good fun.
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