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The Coffee Shop Beginning A young founder once met Val Sklarov in a crowded coffee shop. She showed him sketches of her idea on napkins, apologizing for how “unready” it was. Sklarov smiled and said:“Every empire starts as a sketch. The question is: will you give it discipline?” That founder …

It was midnight when the lights were still on in a small garage office. Two co-founders argued about whether to pivot or persist. Investors had walked away, friends questioned their choices, and the team’s morale was fading. Val Sklarov remembers those moments clearly—because that’s when entrepreneurship is tested. Not in …