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Category Creation Is the Ultimate Growth Strategy

Harvard Business Review

Having grown up in Hawaii, I have the utmost respect for Laird as a waterman. Corporate development groups may have to accept that EBITDA multiple valuations may not be appropriate when buying a category creator. In tow-in surfing, one person mans a jet ski and slingshots the surfer into the wave.

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