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I don't think ChatGPT could have said it any better.
What do dating and business have in common?
There are cringeworthy moments in How to Succeed in
For more of Allen Kopelman's insights on Business Without Really Trying, especially in its portrayal
correlations between dating and business today, of women. I'm thankful that we don't objectify women the
check out the B2B Vault podcast episode titled way they did back then and have more inclusive policies
"Dating and Business? How Do They Correlate?" in place today.
Here's a link to this episode on Spotify: https://
podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/b2b-vault/episodes/ It's a big moment for Ponty when he trades his window
Dating-and-Business--How-Do-They-Correlate---B2B- washer scaffold for the company's mailroom and begins
Vault---The-Biz-To-Biz-Podcast--Episode-226-e2gr0oe/ his journey up the corporate ladder. In the end, he doesn't
a-ab21e3n make it to the top, but he doesn't completely fail, either. He
trades up by leaving the company and doing something
All episodes of B2B Vault: The Biz to Biz Podcast are
available on all popular podcasting platforms. completely different that doesn't involve stepping on other
people to get ahead.

The moral, for me, is that our industry is a relationship
forms that are instantly available may not always be business, driven by real people, not machines. Let's stop
good for you or your business. Tell your merchants hiding behind our technology and get out in the arena,
to think twice before they go running off to get their where we can connect with people and have meaningful
hearts broken by PayPal, Stripe or Square! discussions about how we can work together.

Get into the arena
Allen Kopelman, a serial entrepreneur, is co-founder and CEO of
Many of the behaviors we are seeing, both in business Nationwide Payment Systems Inc. and host of B2B Vault: The Payment
and in dating, are directly tied to an overdependence on Technology podcast. Email him at allen@npsbank.com and connect on
technology. Our problem, in the payments industry and LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/allenkopelman/ and Twitter @
civilization in general, is that our technology has become AllenKopelman..
so sharp, efficient, agile and responsive
to our needs that we are falling into a
trap of thinking we can use it to succeed
without even trying.

To Teddy Roosevelt's point, people who
go out and test their mettle in the arena
deserve credit for succeeding or at least PAYMENT FORM GENERATOR
trying:
"It is not the critic who counts; not
the man who points out how the EASY TO USE:
strong man stumbles, or where the
doer of deeds could have done them
better. The credit belongs to the man We Host Page
who is actually in the arena, whose
face is marred by dust and sweat Pay Link
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but who does actually strive to do
the deeds; who knows great enthu-
siasms, the great devotions; who Level Ill
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who at the best knows in the end the ACH
triumph of high achievement, and
who at the worst, if he fails, at least
fails while daring greatly, so that his C A L L F O R T R A I N I N G
place shall never be with those cold
and timid souls who neither know 8 0 0 - 2 9 6 - 4 8 1 0
victory nor defeat."

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