Jan. 30, 2025
Stacklist Funded!
We celebrate a significant milestone in our startup journey as we receive our first investment, marking a new chapter for Stackless. The episode dives into discussions about investor engagement, strategic planning, and emotional reflections on growth and future goals.
• Celebrating our first investment and what it means for our journey
• Reflecting on feedback and improving our investor communication
• Discussing the vital role of milestones in our planning process
• Acknowledging emotional highs and practical strategies in entrepreneurship
• Preparing for the next steps and user growth goals
00:00 - Intro Highlights
00:55 - Discussing the Pitch
04:41 - An Exciting Call
11:56 - New Beginnings, Growing User Base
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High fives.
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I don't know Today's the day.
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Fasten your seatbelt.
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We are about to take off.
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Please keep your arms inside the stack list.
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Call number two, seeing if we're close to our first investment.
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I believe you know we're gonna invite on here and we're gonna talk about this at some point.
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Like I want to, like, I want to have that first call and then this is like the second chapter of this like episode and then after this we're gonna have on and be like we talked about you.
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No, I totally yeah.
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No, what do you think?
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No, no, how was uh, how's the, how's the, the delivery and stuff.
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Talking too much didn't focus on enough stuff like what's the, what's the thing?
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uh, I don't know well, maybe, maybe a bit overwhelming.
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Uh, you know a lot of information, a lot of uh moving pieces, like a lot of connections, like this is how it look.
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This is how we are doing, you know, back and forth.
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So yeah, yeah, that's a good call yeah, I think at one point it was like okay, maybe you should have pulled the plug a bit earlier, like okay, oh good, open for questions, but overall Nice.
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That's a good piece of feedback.
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I think, yeah, I think I'll do that 10% probably earlier than I'm doing it and just sort of be like I'm going to stop for a second and let me know what you, just a second.
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It's funny, I think.
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Be like I'm gonna stop for a second and, yeah, let me know what you, just it's funny.
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I just I think about it so much, like all the different parts and pieces and how it comes together and like and all the possibilities and all those sort of things.
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It's like I almost just I'm gonna tell you the whole vision, right start of it.
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I'm gonna tell you what this looks like in 2050.
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Okay, so, when you have stackless embedded in your thoughts, no, exactly.
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It's like you know.
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I can see during the call that you have all these ideas popping up into your head.
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I'm like, okay, just you know you have to cut it on, point in place.
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Don't say it's a food delivery service, please.
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Yeah, but overall it was amazing Well great.
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I just wanted to like yeah for tech overall it was amazing.
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Well, great, I just wanted to like um, yeah, for that part.
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It was amazing to see how it all flew.
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It was like, oh my god, it's so fast.
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So I was like, nice, that's good to see totally um.
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I have gotten that no card thing in in the mobile app a couple of times.
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Oh, me too, yeah me too, okay, good, good.
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Just so you I love it.
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Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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Good.
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Well, I saw it in the mobile app.
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and now you pivoted great, to be honest, when it happened.
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I have these things where I will start to see 1% of something come up and I go.
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you know, let me show you this other thing, okay.
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But it's so few and far between that I see stuff and obviously, with how fast you've been making it, like I don't, like you can see how fast I fly through the whole thing, and it's basically I don't even think you know, I remember, like doing the early, the remember, like doing the early at the beginning.
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Um well, you just, and as I like, as we do, the scraper I'm like now look over here for a second.
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I'm gonna sing you a little song for, like you know, whatever like I'm trying to like, come up with other ways to like yeah, no for sure.
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I remember those days I was like, oh my god, is this going to work?
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But now we are.
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You're an excellent place, so yeah dig it all right.
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well, I just was like what's your feedback?
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I'm not like.
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I'm in the dev app, by the way, and I'm in the dev version Lazar just updated, don't wait on me.
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So whenever you both feel like it's good to go, just feel free to do it.
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Yeah, maybe tonight I'm going to shoot.
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Good to go.
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Just feel free to do it Over the edits and the shares.
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Yeah, maybe tonight I'm going to shoot some poops, alright, nice.
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Well, chapter two of this episode, and what comes next, we'll tell you after this sponsor break.
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No, just kidding, I don't have sponsors yet.
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So never mind, don't go anywhere, you know.
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Yeah, all right.
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Yeah, cool, kid good.
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Okay.
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So I'm inviting Martina in and she doesn't know that.
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I just talked to her and he gave us a thumbs up First check, First check, first check investment.
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And he's joining the board.
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Martina doesn't want to jump in because she says do I have to do my hair?
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What am I stepping into?
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Don't have to be camera ready.
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Okay, here we goin is coming in hey, hey um.
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So I just got off the phone with with okay um, he's gonna start start with $100,000.
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Okay, and he's going to join the board Nice and then he's going to talk to and see if they will also do a portion and then once we get to a milestone Joy of Mom, a couple thousand users, whatever that milestone is then he'll do another 100,000 after that one.
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Okay, so we are on the road.
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We are funded Amazing, we have money.
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Congrats, that's it.
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What do we do?
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We throw a party, you know, spend it all at once.
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Oh my goodness.
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And his main thing is just let's just figure out that next milestone, whether it's, you know, building in some of these communities and figuring out that path to.
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You know, I think you and I can sit down and look at whether it's, you know, x number of people per day, whatever it is, what is that sort of like?
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10,000 users divided by 6, 1,600 a month divided by 4, so 400 a week.
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You know, it's kind of like just figuring out where those pipelines come from and where we're tapping into, and that becomes the thing.
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And then Nice, nice, no, no, this is the first step, you know.
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The rest will come up as dominoes.
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It totally will.
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Yeah, that was the thing Basically.
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He also said once we get to, once we get over this next hump and the two tranches of a hundred, then then we'll.
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You know, that's basically.
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He was sort of hoping, like that's all we need to go raise around.
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But I, I feel like that's, that's, this is plenty to go to sort of get that next step, of figure out the right person to come in and help.
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You know, from a backend perspective or whatever, that we, we need to get some of the social features out.
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But other than that, I just um so I talked to princess too.
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She's going to come back part-time on on monday and just like with the list and um, coming back to some of the curators and building out profiles, like I need to, like, you know, we turn social cat back on a little bit and just start a little bit more of that stuff.
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But, um, anywho, so nice.
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No, this is amazing news for friday.
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Yeah, yes, so weekend will be nice right, so just we don't do anything no, we just sign off that the week was complete.
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Um, so, anyways, I'm gonna, I'm gonna write back to lawyers now and just get that drawn up.
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But yeah we'll get that, get that started that's.
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That's amazing.
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Christmas came early, so christmas came early, it did.
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Yeah, I think that's it.
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Well, I think.
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I think what we do is let's sit down.
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Also, maybe we can do a monday morning, you know, before we do the team call is just spend some time, you and I, figuring out what what things look like in terms of cause, obviously a little different.
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Now that we need to, we need to think about kind of weekly reports and updates and you know and and how you know, go going back through the all the services and and getting the runway ready and you know, the reporting and mix panel, like just kind of refocusing for the next little bit before we turn things off for the holidays.
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And then that way I feel like, and especially we'll feel like we're teed up good for January.
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Yeah, no, definitely I'm looking forward to this, this package didn't even have a bow on it, came unwrapped, but I'm good with that.
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No, I want the flame as well.
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That's perfectly fine.
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Oh, amazing, alright well, rocket ship's rumbling.
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Putting some gas in it, let's go, let's go.
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Yep, all right.
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Well, have a good weekend and we'll do some planning on Monday.
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Okay, I just got confirmation that not one but two of our investment first investment deposits have gone through, so I'm inviting Martina in to.
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She thinks we're going to do a recording for the newsletter or whatever, but I'm going to just show a little bank account number.
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So what a moment.
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Okay, here we go.
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I'm like, oh my gosh.
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I'm like get today is just.
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I feel like it's a new chapter, it's.
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It's like it's it's a page turning.
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There's this like journey that's starting today.
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The energy today, just it feels like that so much, oh my gosh and I'm just blowing up on x.
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Oh there, she is okay.
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So let me just real quick share what I've got in the newsletter.
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Okay, here we go.
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All right, I just want to see if I've got this kind of laid out right, and then you can give me feedback.
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You ready, mm-hmm.
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Is that?
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formatted?
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Is that formatted okay?
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Yeah, yeah.
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By the way, that looks amazing.
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It's nice to see that.
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Oh my gosh.
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So nice, take a minute.
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Yeah yeah, not one, but two deposits came in within an hour, so that is.
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You're on the road.
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That is where we're at.
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It's so funny.
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I woke up today and today just feels like.
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I don't know today's a day I yeah, it's a new chapter.
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It's a new like, it's something, so fasten your seatbelt.
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We are about to take off.
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Please keep your arms inside the stack list.
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No flash photography and if anyone gets sick, just pull the cord.
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That says we will take a little breather, but we're taking off, so anyhow, high fives yeah, christmas came early definitely yeah, exactly, all right.
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Well, let's go put put a dent in the world yeah, buy some boat and throw a party.
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What are we waiting for?
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yeah all of a sudden, it sounds like fire festival.
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Right, let's uh, let's go.
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Oh, my god throwbacks.
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Yeah, I think we'll start with getting 5,000 users.
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I think, that sounds like the first thing.
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Yeah.
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It's better with more people.
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Let's go throw a big party with 10,000 users, 10,000 Stackless users.
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That's our next milestone.
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So we'll come back and we're going to do another one of these when we have 9,999 users.
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And then we're just going to sit and then what happens is somebody's going to cancel and we're like no, I'm like, I got to text a friend, oh my God.
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All right, I'm glad we can capture this moment.
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All right, I gotta go pay some bills you do that amazing.
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