3) The CEO of the company is not the entrepreneur w/skin in the game, but often some acroparasite actor milking the system. - Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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3) The CEO of the company is not the entrepreneur w/skin in the game, but often some acroparasite actor milking the system.
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Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Nassim Nicholas Taleb (born 1 January 1960 in Amioun, Lebanon) is an essayist, epistemologist, researcher, and former practitioner of mathematical finance.
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