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To Grow, These Founders Had to Kill Parts of Their Companies They'd Believed Were Essential Sometimes, when you kill off your sacred cows, you discover whole new fields of opportunity.

By Margot Boyer-Dry • Mar 3, 2022

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Sunwink's Ganesh (left) and Schenck learned what to keep vs. ditch.

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