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SATURDAY, 30 JANUARY 1999
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
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- Your fitness journey started on the second of January. It ended on the fourth.…
- Every parent has a favourite child. It's whichever one isn't currently talking.
- Every great company started in a garage. Yours will end there too. The car's…
- Compound interest is the eighth wonder of the world. Your overdraft found it first.…
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