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What Advisors Should Actually Learn From Amazon
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What Advisors Should Actually Learn From Amazon

i.e. Professional Service Firms Don't Scale

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Morgan Ranstrom
Feb 22, 2022
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Summary: Many new advisors look at tech startups and giant conglomerates like Amazon and presume they, too, are running a tech startup. They’re not.

We’re not.

We are running time-intensive professional services businesses.

These two types of businesses, software and financial planning, are distinct.

The former scales. The latter does not.

An infinite n…

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