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Hello, my name is Jim Zuffoletti, and I am a serial entrepreneur.

As an entrepreneur who has gone back and talked to a lot of business school students about the experience,

one of the things that I often like to point out is I was not a lemonade stand entrepreneur.

I saw what it was like to be an intrapreneur, and I saw that it had some benefits.

You get all kinds of resources, but you didn't have the same kind of experience that you had as an independent individual.

And so I saw that aspect, so the downsides of staying and being an entrepreneur.

And then I started to look around,

this is the, at this point, this is the mid-90s.

And, you know, seeing the kind of entrepreneurial culture start to show up, I began to identify a lot more with that that I did with being inside a big company.

I got my founding, co-founding experience as a junior member of a early business to business startup called Free Markets.

We were a B2B e-commerce company.

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