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SATURDAY, 6 AUGUST 2005
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
- Skipping your daily coffee won't buy you a house. Nothing will. Have the coffee.
- The consultation runs for twelve weeks. The decision was made in week zero.
- No pain, no gain. You chose neither. Your heart has noted it in your…
- You flipped a water bottle on Monday morning just to feel something. It landed.…
- They say sweat is weakness leaving the body. Yours has decided to stay.
- He vanished for five months, then texted "haha so true" like he'd just popped…
- Strangers online have voted you "not wrong". The same strangers once voted to give…
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