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Hello, my friend and get to the episode. Hello, my friend, and welcome to another episode of Negotiate Anything.

Thanks for spending time with us today. It's listeners like you in 181 different countries

that have made Negotiate Anything the most popular negotiation and conflict resolution

podcast in the world. I'm your host,

Kwame Christian. I'm a business lawyer, mediator, professor, and the director of the American

Negotiation Institute. Before we get started, I have two quick questions for you. Is negotiation a

critical part of what you do? Do you need to resolve conflict and persuade at work? If you answered yes to both

of those questions, visit our website to learn more about our negotiation workshops. We've traveled

the country working with professionals just like you, and we'd love to have the opportunity to

work with you too. Check out the link in the description to learn more. Marks, thanks for joining us today.

Thanks for having you, Kwame.

It's going to be a lot of fun and it's a pleasure, brother. Absolutely. Listeners, I wish you could have heard the conversation we were just having. This is great. I kept telling him, hey, Marks, we got to stop. We have to save some of this magic for this interview. So I'm pumped to share this with you guys. So, Marks, how about you tell us a little bit about yourself and what you do?

Sure. So I'm pumped to share this with you guys. So Marks, how about you tell us a

little bit about yourself and what you do? Sure. So I just sold a company that I grew from one of

America's no companies to Inc 500 Fastest Growing Company, number 383, then Inc. 5,000, three times.

We sold the most exciting product on the planet, ink and toner, business to business,

which is like toilet paper. Nobody cares unless it breaks in your hands and or you have none and

you need some. But we outsold the competition five to one, meaning it would take five of their

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