Saplings: The Childhoods of Exceptional Entrepreneurs

A study of 260 founders.

“I chose cultural anthropology, since it offered the greatest opportunity to write high-minded balderdash.” — Kurt Vonnegut.

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Friends,

One way I think about The Generalist’s work is as the anthropologist of a small, strange tribe.

This is not a normal tribe. It has no set territorial home, no blood lineage, no linguistic or ethnic markers. Its people ha…