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Craig Custance is the author of The Franchise: The Business of Building Winning Teams (2024) and also Behind the Bench: Inside the Minds of Hockey's Greatest Coaches (2017). He is currently the Head of Creative Development at The Athletic, a New York Times company, and was the host of the popular interview podcast The Full 60. He joined The Athletic after nearly a decade covering the NHL as a national hockey writer, the last six as a senior writer for ESPN.com. Before covering the NHL, he was an award-winning journalist with the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. ...more

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Since you put "The Founders" and "Billion Dollar Loser" on your to-read list I think you'd enjoy "Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup" by John Carreyrou, "Super Pumped" by Mike Isaac and "Billion Dollar Whale" by Bradley Hope and Tom Wright.

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