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Over the past 20 years, store owners have taught me a few fundamental things about doing physical retail right.
Dax Dasilva is the CEO and founder of Lightspeed Commerce, the unified POS and payments platform for ambitious entrepreneurs. He is also the founder of Age of Union, an environmental alliance that has invested $40 million in protecting critical species and ecosystems.
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