ConnectWise's founder on swimming the Channel, selling up and slowing down

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Arnie Bellini on why the time was right to seek ConnectWise's first outside investment

"I swam the Channel in 2013 and I said that will be the last big physical challenge I'll put myself through, and then I'll put myself through the biggest business challenge. So I have been on a fiv...

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