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To Survive, Sometimes You Have to Let Go of Your Vision -- and Ego

Entrepreneurship means exploring unknown paths, and sometimes that leads a founder somewhere different from where they started.
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Glenn Kelman thought of himself as a software guy. He loves software. He co-founded a company called Plumtree Software. “When I applied for a passport or had to fill out my tax forms, I wrote down that I was a software entrepreneur,” he says. 

So when he became CEO of a real estate startup called , he had a: “I wanted to solve every real estate problem with software.”

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