October 2017
Beginner
240 pages
5h 26m
English
Sitting on a shelf in my office is a 1990 vintage bottle of Dom Perignón. It was given to me by a strategy consulting firm in celebration of its offer to rejoin it after I completed business school. It remains unopened. Instead, I show the bottle to my students every year and tell them my personal story in hopes of inspiring them to enter StartUpLand.
What’s that story?
I was you.
Twenty years ago, I was the audience for this book.
I graduated from college in 1991. After college, I went to work for The Boston Consulting Group (BCG), an amazing place that allowed me to learn about business and strategy at a very young age. A few years later, when I was admitted to business school, BCG offered to pay for school ...