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'We just hit our 1,000,000th user!' 'We just billed $10,000,000' posted the founder on Facebook right before their company died.

AAnonymous ·October 16, 2017 ·1 answer

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AAnonymous· Oct 18, 2017

What company is this? Or what type of company in what space/country?

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