Debbi Fields - “Customer Experience”

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Jul 17, 201868:48Business

Debbi Fields showed that anyone can make a dream business reality. As a young mother with no business experience, she was able to open her first cookie store in Palo Alto, CA in the late 1970s. She often gave cookies awa...

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