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It’s Not the End: Why Creating an Exit Strategy Sets Your Business Up for Long-Term Success

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And sadly, in 2008 Yahoo turned down an offer to be acquired by Microsoft for $44.6 billion and instead sold themselves to Verizon in 2016 for only $4.6 “Yahoo refused to buy Google for $1 billion in 1998 and again refused $5 billion in 2002. In 2023, Google has a market cap of $1.7

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How Big Corporations Are Cutting Their Energy Usage

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In 2008, they created a program that is called the Climate Corps. So far, thanks to the efforts of Climate Corps, companies like Google, Facebook and Verizon (collectively) have been able to uncover close to a billion dollars in savings that are directly contributed to making wiser decisions as it relates to energy efficiency.

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