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Ryan Blair, HashtagOne: From Gang Member, To Entrepreneur, To Anti-VC

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My CIO had been ex-CIO at Herbalife, and was an EVP of Software for Disney. I'm an operator, and I know about firing, hiring, layoffs, shutting things down, opening this up, expanding, scaling, and how you go through doing all of that. It was really the same business, but with less capital.