How Silicon Valley Biases Startups to Do a Lot of Dumb Stuff with Rand Fishkin

12/12/21 • 48 min

Rand is the Founder of SparkToro and Moz, author of Lost and Founder, loves whisky, travel, and helping people do better marketing.

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Rand is the Founder of SparkToro and Moz, author of Lost and Founder, loves whisky, travel, and helping people do better marketing.

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