Interviews with blockchain founders and builders on the Solana blockchain. Hosted by two developers building on Solana, by Nick (@nickfrosty) and James (@jamesrp13).
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Product Manager Asia Podcast: Interviews with founders, product managers in Asia
François Le Nguyen
Interviews with leading founders & product managers who build, launch, and grow products in Asia.
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Agency Lessons | Interviews with Founders, Owners, and Operators about Growth and Operations
Jakob Greenfeld
What if you could uncover the secrets behind the fastest growing agency businesses today? Join me as I’m interviewing agency founders, owners, and operators. You’ll learn how they kick-started their businesses and drove them to success. The guests range from owners of fresh, up-and-coming agencies to seasoned operators managing well-established firms. Tune in for insights and inspiration from the front lines of the agency world.
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What if you knew data behind the fastest growing SaaS companies today? Each morning join Nathan Latka as he spends 15 minutes interviewing SaaS founders. You'll learn how SaaS CEO's launched their startup and grew it into a real SaaS business. SaaS Founders range from bootstrapped to funded, MVP to 10,000 customers, pre revenue to pre IPO.
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Conversations with leading entrepreneurs, non-profit founders, award winning designers, educators, artists and everything else in between. We dig deep into their stories, have honest conversations about how they made their ideas come to life and the lessons learned along the way.
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Doing Business with Matt Hartman, a tech VC interviews founders of non-venture backed businesses
Matt Hartman
Doing Business with Matt Hartman is a podcast where a startup builder turned venture capital investor interviews founders of non-venture capital backed startup companies. Discussions include management, marketing, finance, and revenue. The companies have had a business plan on day one, revenues, on day two, and have been around for years or decades.
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Scaling Smarter: 3 Lessons Learned From Scaling to $30m/yr in revenue in 2024
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9:50Av Nathan Latka
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How Lulo is Making DeFi Stupidly Simple, w/ Daniel, co-founder and CEO @Lulo
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55:42A conversation with Daniel (aka @nicechute), co-founder and CEO @Lulo Full notes for this episode at: https://solfate.com/podcast/70 Solfate Podcast Follow us on twitter and turn the notifs on: @SolfatePod Discover all our podcast episodes on our website: solfate.com/podcast Collect our episodes as NFTs on DRiP: drip.haus/solfate Summary In this ep…
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I spent $1m on Linkedin Ads and Added $3m of new Revenue, Paragon CMO
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19:50Av Nathan Latka
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This CEO Does $50m/yr and is moving to a Flat Org Structure, ChiliPiper CEO
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16:14Av Nathan Latka
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3 Product-Led Strategies I Used to Generate $1B In Self-Serve Revenue For My Clients, Wes Bush
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21:41Av Nathan Latka
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Frame.io COO Shares How they Built Product to Hit 1m Users and Exited to Adobe for $1.25b
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20:57Av Nathan Latka
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Capacity Acquires $5m ARR Bootstrapped YouCanBookMe To Build AI Support Mega Platform
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28:2250% Cash, 50% stock. Bridget Harris grew You Can Book Me from 0 to $5M revenue over 12 years. David is building Capacity (previously at Answers.com which sold for ~$900M). Today, Capacity acquires YouCanBookMe in a big win for bootstrappers!Av Nathan Latka
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These are the AI SEO Secrets that Clickup, Airbase, and Freshworks are using to win
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26:33Av Nathan Latka
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Building an investment DAO within the Star Atlas ecosystem and buying a $5M space ship w/ Craig, Founder of SuperPhoenixDAO
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59:39A conversation with Craig Mahoney (aka @Njord614), Founder @SuperPhoenixDAO Full notes for this episode at: https://solfate.com/podcast/69 Solfate Podcast Follow us on twitter and turn the notifs on: @SolfatePod Discover all our podcast episodes on our website: solfate.com/podcast Collect our episodes as NFTs on DRiP: drip.haus/solfate Summary In t…
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While Zapier Gets all the Press, Celigo Just Doubled Revenue to $95m, CEO Jan Arendtsz
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15:54Av Nathan Latka
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Behind DSCVR: Building a Decentralized Social Network for the Web3 Era w/ Rick Porter, CEO
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57:52Behind DSCVR: Building a Decentralized Social Network for the Web3 Era A conversation with Rick Porter (aka @rckprtr), CEO @ DSCVR Full notes for this episode at: https://solfate.com/podcast/68 Solfate Podcast Follow us on twitter and turn the notifs on: @SolfatePod Discover all our podcast episodes on our website: solfate.com/podcast Collect our e…
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NYSE: PAR CEO Savneet Singh Shares How He Great from $200m/yr to $400m/yr
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3 Strategies I Used To Scale SecurityScorecard to $70M ARR, 1,700 Customers, & $200M in Cash
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Here's how I added $10m revenue over the last 18 months, HiFello CEO
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18:54Av Nathan Latka
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Private, Bootstrapped, & Profitable: How Rajesh Jain Scaled to Over $100M As a Solo Founder
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17:53Av Nathan Latka
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Pavilion Breaks $10m Revenue using New Growth Playbook, CEO Sam Jacobs
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Want a $100m revenue machine? Copy this monthly cadence, BrightEdge CEO
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13:21Av Nathan Latka
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Sell SMB SaaS? He Generates $20m/yr using "Impossible" Outbound, Craver CEO
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AI SaaS for Hospitals Does $50m/yr up from $25m last year, Reveleer CEO
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Solana's Mobile Future w/ Andrew, DRiP.haus Mobile Engineer
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55:51Mobile dev chat: Focus on DRiP app & Solana mobile, discussing cross-platform tools, security, UX & community. Key: protect secrets & prioritize performance. Full notes for this episode at: https://solfate.com/podcast/67 Follow @SolfatePod on Twitter for updates: https://twitter.com/SolfatePod PS: We are happy to announce the launch of our Solfate …
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They make $30m per year selling software to the EOS community, Ninety CEO
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33 Year Old Quickly Closes 100 Customers For His Construction SaaS, Gets $10m+ Valuation
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42 year old lawyer convinces 200+ Construction Companies to Pay $4k+ Per Year for his Legal Software
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Web3 Artist to Community Leader w/ Superteam Germany (feat. Bekka)
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54:02Building Web3 communities that matter: Inside Superteam Germany's strategy for sustainable growth in Solana. Full notes for this episode at: https://solfate.com/podcast/66 Follow @SolfatePod on Twitter for updates: https://twitter.com/SolfatePod PS: We are happy to announce the launch of our Solfate Drip channel where you can collect Solfate Podcas…
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Pendo Shares Board Deck Slides, Breaks $200m Revenue, Lessons with Co-Founder Eric Boduch
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20:41Co-Founder Eric Boduch joins Latka on stage to share how they got 2,842 leads in Q2 2017. This helped them hit $15m in ARR before growing to over $200m today in Sept 2024. Will Pendo hit $300m before Dec 2025?Av Nathan Latka
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His cap table will shock you. $100m revenue, $750m valuation in his series D with Coro Co-Founder Dror Liwer
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16:27Coro launched in 2015 with a bottom up approach to solving sercurity issues for the SMB and midmarket. Today, they've raised $282m in funding to go big, but how much have the founders been diluted? Can they grow into their $750m valuation?Av Nathan Latka
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Founder stuck at $8m revenue, burning $400k/month shares Profit and Loss, How he turned things around with Proposify CEO Kyle Racki
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20:16Proposify launched in 2013 and grew to $6m revenue by 2019 before things got scary. The business was burning $400k/month, product started to stall, and a layoff was needed. How did CEO Kyle Racki announce the 25 person layoff? Is the company profitable today? Are they growing again?Av Nathan Latka
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Mining ORE on Solana with proof-of-work tokens (feat. HardhatChad)
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56:24Get insights into ORE’s proof-of-work journey, including new features in V2, staking pools, and the project’s unique approach to building a broader ecosystem. Full notes for this episode at: https://solfate.com/podcast/65 Follow @SolfatePod on Twitter for updates: https://twitter.com/SolfatePod PS: We are happy to announce the launch of our Solfate…
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Bending Spoons just bought his company for $100,000,000+ with Issuu CEO Joe Hyrkin
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23:22Joe launched Issuu back in 2006 to help magazines move digital. He grew to $50m in revenue and raised about $50m. In March 2024 he decided to exit in a nine figure deal. How'd the deal go down? Why did he go with Bending Spoons?Av Nathan Latka
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She invented Gmail Send Later in 2010. Bootstrapping to $10m revenue with Boomerang CEO Aye Moah
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26:32In 2010, she launched one of the first chrome extensions for managing email. Boomerang quickly got 10k downloads and grew revenue using a freemium model. Today, her testing framework is enabling her to drive higher free to paid conversion rates - all from the Chrome Extension Store. Can they hit $12m ARR before Dec 2024?…
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Decentralized Cloud Storage on the Solana Network: Introducing Shadow Drive V2
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52:06GenesysGo is transforming decentralized storage with Shadow Drive, a fast, secure platform built on Solana, designed to rival traditional cloud solutions. And they are building it using mobile phones. Full notes for this episode at: https://solfate.com/podcast/64 Follow @SolfatePod on Twitter for updates: https://twitter.com/SolfatePod PS: We are h…
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Adam Robinson Shares Profit and Loss, $22m Revenue, Strategy behind Linkedin and Lawsuit
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19:45Retention.com hit $22m of revenue in 2024 on the back of Adam Robinson and team bootstrapping. Wanting to get into B2B, they laucnhed an IP lookup tool called RB2B which competes with Clearbit and 6Sense. How has he used Linkedin to grow? What's driving his 8% free to paid conversion rate? Can he fix churn before its too late?…
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Genius SEO Hacks This 34 Year Old Used to Bootstrap to $55m Revenue with Omnisend CEO Rytis Lauris
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21:34Rytis Lauris bootstrapped OmniSend to $55,000,000 in revenues. His top growth driver? SEO. Learn how he made his first SEO hire, how he structured his SEO team, and how much traffic this team drives the business today. Will he hit $70m ARR before Dec this year?Av Nathan Latka
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Hootsuite Approaching $400m in Revenue by Throwing out the SaaS Playbook with CEO Irina Novoselsky
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19:59Hootsuite was the social media darling of the 2017's by trouble started after a failed $750m IPO led by Goldman. Today, original founder Ryan Holmes and team have tasked new CEO Irina Novoselsky with leading the company from $200m to $400m. She says the old SaaS playbook is dead. Its working. The firm will hit $400m by Dec 2024.…
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Customer.io Just Hit $70m Revenue - 9 mistakes to avoid with CEO Colin Nederkoorn
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23:33Colin laucnhed the business back in 2012 and got stuck under $5m revenue until 2018. He 6x'd the business by 2022 to $30m in revenue and hit $70m in Septemer 2024. How did he do it? Hear the 9 mistakes he made that he think you should fight to avoid.Av Nathan Latka
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Founder Raises $750k From Founderpath and Increases Equity. CEO Shares how Founderpath Worked for Him.
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31:13VoxPopMe has hit $6m in revenue. Wanting to avoid dilution, CEO Andy and the board rasied $750k from Founderpath. At the same time, Founderpath worked with the board to establish a new ESOP pool for management resutling in 10%+ more equity for leaders.Av Nathan Latka
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He Raised $3m at a $25m valuation, is that overpriced or just right?
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The Micro PE Playbook: They Bought 20 SaaS Companies, $60m ARR, 300 people
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23:53Tim founded SaaS Group in 2018 using his own money from Eyeo exit to acquire Deploybot. SaaS Group is structured as an LLC and funded all deals with equity until 2020 when they began using debt. In 2024, they sold about 5% of the SaaS Group LLC for $25m implying a value of $500m. They’ve purchased 20 companies over the last 5 years. Their companies…
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How ActiveCampaign hit $100m ARR on way to $300m
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20:11How ActiveCampaign hit $100m ARR on way to $300mAv Nathan Latka
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The Revocable Living Trust Cheat Code for SaaS Founders (Save millions on taxeS)
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29:16Alessandro Chesser was one of the leading sales executives at Carta for 7 years. They always talked about helping Founders set up Trusts to preserve wealth - but it never launched. In February of 2022 he left to launch Dynasty and make the Trust process easier for Founders. Why South Dakota? Revocable or Irrevocable? 0% tax or 40% tax? We talk abou…
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Colosseum's Venture Fund: Investing in Solana Startups and Building a Co-Founder Matching Platform
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51:58Colosseum fuels Solana innovation! 🚀 $250K for startups, mentorship, and a $60M fund. Next hackathon begins September 2nd—be part of the future! #Solana #Blockchain #startup Full notes for this episode at: https://solfate.com/podcast/63 Follow @SolfatePod on Twitter for updates: https://twitter.com/SolfatePod PS: We are happy to announce the launch…
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The next Mailchimp? Email SaaS Hit $15m Revenue Last Month
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22:11Tyler Denk launched Beehiiv after missing out on the ""Founder Money"" the MorningBrew team made when they exited. Today, his tool helps newsletter creators launch, grow, and monetize. The firm did $1.5m in revenue last month split between SaaS, ad revenue, and kickbacks on cross promoting newsletters. Can they hit $25m ARR this year?…
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Genius Affiliate Strategy Helps Bootstrapper Hit $27,000,000 Revenue
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48:46She bootstrapped to $12m in revenue in under 18 months. Rebecca Shostak launched FloDesk.com in 2017 as an email marketing tool focused on beautiful design for solopreneurs. As of May 2024, 80,000 customers pay $28/mo on average and the firm just launched their second product: Sales funnels. She's done this all with a team of just 50 people - $540k…
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The Inside Story of Beamer Acquiring Userflow to hit $10,000,000 in ARR
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16:06Inside Beamer acquiring UserFlow and creating a $10,000,000 revenue machine. Userflow had no reason to sell with 50% EBITDA margins, 650 customers and completely bootstrapped. How did Beamer, using Camber fund money, get the deal done?Av Nathan Latka
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How Pavilion Hit $10m in Revenue While Balancing Investor and Customer Demands with CEO Sam Jacobs
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27:38Sam Jacobs launched Pavilion in 2019 to help sales reps learn. Today, he does $11m in annual revenues and has expanded to CEO's, CMO's and other leadership groups. Can they hit $15m in revenue before Dec 2024?Av Nathan Latka
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How Ephemeral Rollups Will Change Blockchain Gaming (feat. MagicBlock)
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57:53Full notes for this episode at: https://solfate.com/podcast/62 Follow @SolfatePod on Twitter for updates: https://twitter.com/SolfatePod Notes from the show Magic Block is a high-performance engine for fully on-chain games and applications. It aims to make it easy for developers to build entirely on-chain games and leverage the unique features that…
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$5m in ARR? Your CRO Should Be Focused on These 3 Things
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22:28Owner.com is a $20m ARR SaaS for restaurants that had F90 day churn of 30% before Kyle Norton joined as CRO. He fired 4 AE’s, narrowed the ICP focus, and got burn multiple down from 1.2x to 0.8x as they hit $6m in ARR. Today they do $20m. Can they break $25m before Dec 2024?Av Nathan Latka
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Solana Actions and blinks - Share blockchain anywhere with a link
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55:53Full notes for this episode at: https://solfate.com/podcast/61 Follow @SolfatePod on Twitter for updates: https://twitter.com/SolfatePod PS: We are happy to announce the launch of our Solfate Drip channel where you can collect Solfate Podcast episodes as digital collectibles! Subscribe to our Drip channel today: drip.haus/solfate (we have some fun …
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How Chili Piper Used AI to Hit $40m Revenue, Turn Profitable with Co-Founder Alina Vandenberghe
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14:10The idea that AI can save you cost and help you reach profitability might be a good one. Chili Piper hit $40m in revenue and profitability as Alina built AI into more parts of the org. Here's how she did it across customers, ecosystem, and employees.Av Nathan Latka
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The Secret Virtual Assistant Marketplace SaaS CEO's Spent $25m on in 2023
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17:39Av Nathan Latka
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