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COMMUNITY IS EVERYTHING

How to Build Your Tribe

I am who I am because of who we all are.

—UBUNTU

Aasif yelled into the loudspeaker, “On your mark . . . Get set . . . Go!

Rads and I took off as fast as we could. “Left, right, left, right, turn!!! Left, right, left, right . . .” As we hit the halfway point of the three-legged race (a race we, ahem, have won every year), we could see our top competition, Andrew and Dave, move past us.

We had already blown past Tony Hsieh and Dan Rollman (in addition to all six of the other teams competing in this final heat), and it was down to our two teams.

“Come on, let’s go faster!” I yelled. We knew that ...

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