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Billion Dollar Start-Up

The True Story of How a Couple of 29-Year-Olds Turned $35,000 into a $1,000,000,000 Cannabis Company

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Billion Dollar Start-Up

By: Adam Miron, Sébastien St-Louis, Julie Beun
Narrated by: Curt Bonnem
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It only took five years for two brothers-in-law to create a billion-dollar, award-winning, take-no-prisoners cannabis company called HEXO. How did they do it? That’s the story.

From early roadblocks and devastating personal and financial setbacks to explosive growth and some of the biggest cannabis deals in global history, Billion Dollar Start-Up not only recounts the HEXO story but the history of Canada’s momentous road to legalization.

In this part fast-paced memoir, part high-octane business book, writer and journalist Julie Beun gives us an intimate look at the life of a start-up and the ferocious entrepreneurial drive it takes to succeed - written in real-time, as the story unfolded.

Throughout history, there have been fewer than 100 Canadians who have started a company and lived to see it become worth one billion dollars. Adam Miron and Sébastien St-Louis are two of them. This is their story.

©2021 Adam Miron,Sébastien St-Louis,Julie Beun (P)2021 Spotify Audiobooks
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i was sitting between an overall score of 2 or 3..

the performer's voice is a bit nasally...also sounds like the entrepreneurs were indian so if the narrator had a slight indian accent might have sounded a bit more authentic.... anyways i had high expectations from the title but the storyline is filled with lots of fillers/unnecessary detail which made me put the listening speed to be 1.5 times almost throughout the whole book hoping to find out any good info. but basically seems that only one key message which is to get in early, and that the founders basically had insiders edge in terms of working in the canadian business development area already and that if it works could become big fast...

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