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Mar 2020

36m 49s

How One Man Went From Fired to CEO of Ca...

Gary Vaynerchuk

About this episode

For today’s episode I sit down with the former CEO of the Campbell Soup Company Douglas Conant. He shares an incredible story from his new book ‘The Blueprint’ of how being fired from his job of 9 years led to him becoming the CEO of Campbell's. Make sure to grab a copy. Hit me up and leave a review to let me know what you thought!

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