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by nibo 5419 days ago
I understand your point. Do not forget that he may be a marketing guru now but Seth Godin has computer science degree and started Yoyodyne in 1995, raised $4 million and sold it to Yahoo! 3 years later for $30 million. I think that's not bad.

I know that sometimes he's maybe too motivational but I believe he has a brilliant mix of talking and doing. Squidoo is a great hack to raise money for charities; same for the Domino Project to re-think the publish industry; and the work he is doing for Acumen Fund is really inspiring