Kickstarter: Perry Chen (2018)

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Time named it one of the best inventions of the year. This episode first ran in July of last year. And hope you enjoy. Weren't you getting stressed out that somebody somebody else is gonna beat you to the punch and and do the same thing?

I think that certainly comes to mind. But I think there's also like We couldn't have tried to go any faster. There was just Not that much was in our control. We didn't have a lot of money, we didn't have a lot of influence, we didn't have a lot of connection. So

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