Fresh out of business school in 2015, 25-year-old Personio CEO Hanno Renner had never had a real job before cofounding the company, besides a part-time gig as a skipper. He says it made him both utterly naive and hungry to solve a “real” problem — he just didn’t know it would become a billion-dollar business.
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