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How Connections Compound

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Zach Marshall
Apr 25, 2025
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Success doesn’t just come from talent or luck. Those help—but they aren’t the whole story. In both business and life, the most overlooked force behind outsized outcomes is something else entirely: Connection.

Robert Metcalfe, the Turing Award-winning inventor of Ethernet and professor at the University of Texas at Austin, gave us a law that explains why.

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