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0:19 Introduction and what Dan does

1:25 Combining data analytics and creativity for customer strategy

2:40 The North Face culture: startup or corporate?

3:45 Dan’s relation and interactions with the startup world

7:13 Evaluation of tech vs consumer retail startups

10:34 Differences of men vs women as founders of startups

12:14 Dan’s career and the role of mentorship

14:40 Sidetrack: Where Dan gets energy from; business and private life

19:07 Dan’s first mentorship

20:40 Starters: begin at a startup or big corporate?

27:15 Dan’s first (failed?) strategic consultant assignment: Mr. Clean

39:02 The importance of an effective exit strategy

44:50 Strategic thinking in times like Covid-19

48:27 Product promotion (and Black Friday) from a strategic point of view

58:37 Strategically turning a company from the bottom to the top

1:05:15 Three ingredients for a successful brand and company

1:09:58 What will knock off Amazon’s global domination?

1:12:53 Why startups outpace large (older generation) companies

1:15:11 Innovation at a large company

1:25:44 How to make scale possible

1:29:44 Crash & Burn segment: biggest failures and biggest lessons learned

1:34:52 Private Equity career detour

1:43:41 Differences in challenges among small, medium, and big companies

1:49:19 Founders in (growing) businesses

1:52:36 Impact Talk: Dan career’s biggest impact

1:56:16 Innovation at The North Face

2:01:08 Random Story Segment: Dan’s life outside his career

2:06:10 Audience Question: What books would you recommend?