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Are you an impresario?

  • Saurabh Mithal

Saurabh Mithal

17 Aug 2024 • 1 min read

Whether you are a freelancer or a creative, we can either wait for things to happen or we can make them happen by being an impresario.

Here are 2 brilliant videos from Seth Godin that change the whole game:

On being an impresario
Updated in 2021 to include this lost footage, an hour on what it is to be an impresario followed by a one-hour Q&A. Recorded in NYC in 2014. While it’s dated, I think the ideas hold up. A…
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