The authors contributed equally to this paper and are listed in increasing order of seniority. We are grateful to Hillary Higgins, Jason Moschella, and Melissa Toffanin for their research assistance, and to Kai Lamertz, Mike Lounsbury, Noam Wasserman and three anonymous reviewers for their valuable feedback on earlier versions of this work. We recognize the funding provided by the Entrepreneuri...

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