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Speaker 1: Pushkin. In two thousand and eight, Casper Cappetti got a

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Speaker 1: He called me and said, Casper, I co invented this

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Speaker 1: And I said absolutely not. Are you crazy? Are you

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Speaker 1: probably just the most stupid idea that I've ever heard.

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Speaker 1: It took us more than two years and it wasn't

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Speaker 1: I'm Jacob Goldstein, and this is what's your problem. My

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Speaker 1: guest today is Casper Competti, co founder of on. Casper's

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Speaker 1: problem is this, how can you sell tens of millions

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Speaker 1: talk to Casper about that first problem. How you start

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Speaker 1: Tasper and his co founder's first decisions was this, they'd

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Speaker 1: to make. Right, this is twenty ten when you launched

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Speaker 1: which does seem more efficient, But you don't do that.

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