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David Bartholomeusz is a serial entrepreneur who’s built (and let go of) dozens of businesses—not to chase exits, but to design a life with more freedom and more play. In a conversation that starts light and quickly goes deep, David and Haggai unpack what leadership really is when you strip away ego, hustle-culture scripts, and the “CEO identity.”
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• How to build teams that create autonomy (and stop needing you)
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