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Podcast: Grit
Episode: #104 Co-founder of Intuit, Scott Cook: The Power of Paradigms
Description: Intuit co-founder Scott Cook still remembers the first line of an email he received in 1994 from [email protected]: “This really is Bill Gates.” Intuit’s personal finance product Quicken had survived being crushed by Microsoft Money, and its new accounting software Quickbooks was thriving as well; instead of competing, Gates wanted to buy Intuit for $1.5 billion and take it worldwide. A deal was struck, hands were shook, but there was just one problem: The U.S. Department of Justice.In this episode, Scott and Joubin discuss finding happiness in your career, who Scott aspired to emulate when h...