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Finding joy at work as a founder

Starting your own business is the most risky and stress ridden path to joy you can imagine. Test Double CEO & Co-founder shares challenges, mistakes, and successes from his pursuit of joy at work.
Todd Kaufman
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June 8, 2015
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Starting your own business is probably the most risky and stress ridden path to Joy that you can imagine. Fortunately, you don’t have to follow in my footsteps to find Joy at Work. This talk covers many of the challenges, mistakes, and some successes that I’ve had in my pursuit of Joy over the last 15 years of my career.

The video above was recorded during my presentation at self.conference 2015 on May 29, 2015. The slides can be viewed on SpeakerDeck.

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