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SATURDAY, 18 MARCH 1978
Your startup is a chatbot that tells customers they're right.
Investors loved it. The chatbot told them they would. Then it told them to replace you with it. Very persuasive.
— Zack, unqualified
VERIFIEDUNHELPFUL
PREVIOUSLY, ON YOUR DECLINE
- Your banking app pauses slightly before opening. It's deciding how to tell you.
- Move fast and break things. You broke the coffee machine, the budget and your…
- Parenting is ten percent love and ninety percent asking where the other shoe is.…
- You say you're "an old soul". You're 21. The only old thing about you…
- Age is just a number. So is your cholesterol, and it's climbing faster than…
- The award show ran four hours. The only winner was the advert break.
- You've got a side hustle, a passion project and a podcast. Combined monthly income:…
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