The founder of Mad Radish and DAVIDsTEA, which Segal built from a single store in Toronto to a $200-million publicly-traded emporium, dishes on his first businesses—including an Ottawa Citizen paper route—the difference between a good idea and a good business, why failure is part of entrepreneurship, the fundamentals behind scale, reinvention, as it applies to him leaving DAVIDsTEA, and the freedom that comes with no longer having to prove yourself (hint: maybe you'll even take your start-up public again).

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