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SATURDAY, 21 FEBRUARY 1970
Your startup is an app that replaces a phone call.
With a waitlist, a subscription, and no customers.
— Zack, unqualified
VERIFIEDUNHELPFUL
PREVIOUSLY, ON YOUR DECLINE
- Your resting heart rate is excellent. It's had nothing else to do.
- Love is patient. Your partner is not, and has started a note on their…
- "It's just a phase" is a phrase you'll say for eighteen years. You're the…
- Strangers online have voted you "not wrong". The same strangers once voted to give…
- The spark never fades. It gets downgraded to bin bags, then to a joint…
- You "don't do small talk". You also don't do big talk, phone calls, emails…
- You "work best under pressure". You don't. You just only work under pressure.
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