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SATURDAY, 21 SEPTEMBER 1991
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
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PREVIOUSLY, ON YOUR DECLINE
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- You can do anything you set your mind to. Your mind has set itself…
- Monday motivation is a myth. Like the Loch Ness Monster, a clean office microwave,…
- "Let's take this offline" means "let's never speak of this again." That's also the…
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