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Realize nothing has gotten started. trust me, the reverse is far worse, which is you've mumbled something under your breath in a meeting and everyone has taken that as the net new priority. making sure getting things done is something you can scale and you're really stating your priorities to everyone so they know what's most important is one of the biggest unexpected challenges you'll face. this is the brain trust where i get to take the really complicated sticky messy questions that we all deal with in business and ask it of some of the smartest minds in the business world. today i have ci...

Funding for your company. how much did you raise for sprout. >> ultimately $100 million. >> wow. that's amazing. >> no venture capitalists. i want to know why. what was behind that? >> i had been in a number of different operating roles in venture-backed companies and i felt that that short-term perspective and that lack of appreciation of the fabric of building the company really was missing and when i was going to do it i was doing it on my own terms, i wanted people in there hobbled in what i was trying to do more than just the bottom line alone. >> sam, you've been in vc-backed companies, ...