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DEMOCRATIZE INNOVATION

Innovation means a lot of different things to a lot of different people. A startup flickers to life on it, a well-toned unicorn has often had a steady diet of it, and legacy brands will, at some point, inevitably hear that the lack of it is the reason their good times are behind them.

You have, more than likely, practiced some version of innovation yourself to make it into the Inc. 5000. Innovation feels like the holy grail of our age: the foundational lifeblood of the modern economy, and perhaps even the modern world. Those deemed its greatest achievers—Jobs, Musk, Zuckerberg—are given special, iconic status.

I’ve been fortunate to have worked within a number of incredible companies, large (Google), scaling (Meltwater), and long-standing (STS Education). I’ve met

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