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"If you can't undo the decision, don't rush it."

What We Learned

Test every decision by whether it’s reversible: if you can undo it, move fast; if you can’t, slow down. Planning works like practice — thinking through problems ahead of time makes them easy to handle when they’re real. Watch what people do, not what they say: a partner builds with you, a problem drains you. And the cheapest mistakes are the small ones made early, not the big ones made late.

Notable Observation

Geoffrey treats reputation like a compounding asset rather than a soft concept — one bad partnership or broken commitment doesn't just cost the deal, it costs years of trust that travels into rooms he's not even in.

Why We Invited

I invited Geoffrey Kent because he distills 20+ ventures and five decades of entrepreneurship into a handful of decision filters — speed vs. patience, partner vs. problem — that any founder can apply immediately, without needing his exact resume to use them.

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Geoffrey Kent is a serial entrepreneur who has launched more than 20 ventures over five decades, including his last tech venture, Cognis IT, which he took from launch to a successful exit in six years. He holds an MBA in Entrepreneurial Management from the Wharton School of Business and has been an executive at Xerox, AT&T, the Erving Group, and Deloitte Consulting — as well as teaching entrepreneurship at Lincoln University and judging Drexel University’s annual business plan competition. Through Think Big with Geoffrey Kent, he now teaches entrepreneurs how to build fundable plans that get them the money they need to grow, and exit on their own terms.

Founder, Think Big with Geoffrey Kent