“I just called people up and said, I'm not asking for a job. I just want to understand what your career journey has been… It took me about eight months.”

James Andersen · Buyers and Builders · $2B Investor on People, 29x Returns & the Future of Private Equity

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After quitting his consulting job, spent eight months calling people to interview their career journeys to decide his next move

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