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title: "Stepping Down As Founder-CEO  - Evgeny Shadchnev"
description: "Stepping Down As Founder-CEO  - Evgeny Shadchnev, on Secret Leaders. 311 views."
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# Stepping Down As Founder-CEO  - Evgeny Shadchnev

- Channel: Secret Leaders
- Made for: Secret Leaders
- Published: 2024-06-11
- Views: 311 (production tracker)
- Watch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vcp-PUsBCZM
- Form: long, 1:10:31

helm he made the difficult decision to step down as CEO in 2020 in our conversation we talk about the complex emotions and strategic challenges of this process evgheni...

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