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We're hiring an investment associate on Pear VC's AI and Enterprise team!
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Last night, we hosted a number of founders and aspiring founders at
@pearvc
SF! Loved meeting with all of students and new grads building in AI, Biotech, and SaaS!
Shoutout to our amazing fellows
@sneha1254
and
@madelinehpark
for pulling this all together ✨🍐🦁
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2 of 2
@pearvc
GPs on the Midas List for the 3rd time in a row! Grateful to learn from
@pejmannozad
and
@MarHershenson
every day❣️
They make a perfect pear 🍐✨
We're excited to see our Founding Partners
@pejmannozad
and
@MarHershenson
on the
#ForbesMidas
List, which recognizes the top 100 investors worldwide.
The thing we're the most proud of is the true partnership between Pejman, Mar & the entire Pear team.
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Managed to mint my first NFT this morning with
@TheMycoverse
🍄 🥳
🎉 Congrats to
@petrichorate
and
@pencilflip
on an amazing first wave - sold out in 3 minutes!!!
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2nd Female Founders Breakfast AMA with
@pearvc
's
@MarHershenson
on the opposite coast
Loved meeting all of the amazing NY-based women building in fintech, healthcare, web3 and more🍎🗽
(h/t to
@VivHo
@jillianpuente
✨)
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Had the opportunity to interview one of my favorite investors
@kirstenagreen
for
@pearvc
's Female Technical Founder Circles last night!
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Just a few of my consumer app tryouts in 2023
Any that I might have missed?
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Scrolling reddit threads is probably my favorite form of diligence
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So excited to have
@joandthezhus
run PearX!
The
@pearvc
is now 50% women 💁♀️✨🍐
We recently welcomed
@joandthezhus
to the Pear team to lead all things PearX. PearX is our early stage bootcamp for founders. In the 14-week program, we partner with founders from their earliest days and help them go from 0 to 1.
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Excited to be hosting the first
@nextplayso
community in SF on April 18th! ✨
@benln
@jrdngonen
are bringing together top-notch founders, builders & operators exploring what comes next, whether that’s starting something new or joining a startup!
Link to apply below👇
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Wrapped up our whirlwind 48 hours in NYC with our
@pearvc
fellows!
Had an amazing time with
@MarHershenson
meeting female founders, student founders, and Pear founders 🍐✨
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Heading to NY for another founders event! Join other amazing womxn founders for lunch with our very own
@MarHershenson
🍎🗽
Calling for ✨ womxn founders✨ to join us for the last few spots we have for NYC Manhattan Lunch with
@MarHershenson
on Sept 7th! 👋
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When my parents are visiting SF and request 2 things:
1. a nice res to celebrate a belated mother's day and..
2. a ride in a waymo there
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Another year, another amazing group of Pear Fellows✨
Earlier this month, we brought our amazing fellows to
@pearvc
Menlo Park for our annual Venture Summit and the debut of our very own gelato truck🍦
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The
@pearvc
x
@hackwithtrees
dream team!
Loved meeting so many amazing hackers throughout the weekend
@sean_t_strong
@arasha
@athena
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If you want to know how excited we are for the new office...
After 27 years, I learned how to ride a bike just to get to the new
@pearvc
Studio in Mission Bay 🚲
🚀 Exciting News from Pear VC! 🌉 We are thrilled to announce the opening of our new 30,000 sq ft Pear Studio in San Francisco’s Mission Bay. A space dedicated to fostering collaboration among founders and entrepreneurs.
@pearvc
👇
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Met an awesome group of students at our
@pearvc
AI panel last night! So many great ideas being shared across the audience
kudos to
@joandthezhus
@dacostajam
and
@arasha
for gathering the group!
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Star people at Pear! Huge congrats to
@VivHo
@keith__bender
@addisonleong
✨
Well deserved for an amazing group 💚
We're proud to announce our newly promoted Partners:
@VivHo
,
@keith__bender
, and
@addisonleong
!🍐🥳 We wouldn't be where we are without these three. Please read more about all they've accomplished today on our blog!
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Congrats
@Jhuang0804
for the great hackathon!
The demos (and swag) couldn’t have been more fun 😮💨
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Celebrating 10 years of Pear🍐 with the greatest founding GPs!
@pearvc
Grateful for
@pejmannozad
and
@MarHershenson
for creating this amazing home for founders
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Full house at
@pearvc
tonight for our fireside with Jeffrey Katzenberg!
We’ve covered his huge career shifts from
@Dreamworks
to
@WndrCoLLC
, the art of storytelling, and truffle hunting for great founders ✨
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Super excited to be sharing this Q&A we did with Shelby and Marisa from Conduit in honor of International Women's Day!
We love working with and empowering female founders to change the world
@pearvc
🌎💪
Happy International Women's Day! This month, we're excited to shine a light on a few of Pear's female founders. First up, a Q&A between our Chief of Staff
@DanielleJing
and the amazing co-founders behind Conduit Tech, Shelby and Marisa. Check it out! 👉
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PearX W24 is kicking off soon! 🍐
With the small batch sizes, our partners
@pearvc
really dig in and work with each and every founder on things like hiring your founding team (see below👇)
Learn more here:
20 hires in 14 weeks!
In the PearX S23 cohort, our Talent team helped make 20 offers to candidates for PearX companies over the last 14 weeks.
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One of our companies (series A, climate focused) is hiring for a chief of staff based in New York. Great for someone with previous experience in consulting or IB and is eager to hit the ground running at a startup
Ping me to learn more!
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Really excited to kick-off the search for our next cohort!
It's so great to be in a community of like-minded women and
@VivHo
puts her heart and soul into creating something truly ✨magical✨
Hi Friends! We're recruiting for our Spring ‘24 Female Technical Founder Circles () 👩🏻💻 and now accepting apps/referrals, which kicks off in March!
Do you know female engineer who is thinking about taking the next step into entrepreneurship? Are they
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Congrats on the launch
@petrichorate
and
@pencilflip
!!!
Biggest decision now is what to bid for 🤔
gm 🌟 Formfunction—the 1/1 Solana NFT marketplace—is LIVE! We’re thrilled to bring this into the world with an amazing group of independent launch artists.
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We're working hard
@pearvc
to pull together an awesome kick-off for the founders participating in PearX W23 ✨🍐
It's not to late to apply now! Applications are still open and we have a few spots left
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Revisited a standout podcast episode this weekend:
@lennysan
's interview with
@sarahtavel
A must-listen for key insights on making your product more retentive and knowing when to hit the gas pedal
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Love working with our consumer and AI founders in PearX
Check out
@ajaykam
's thread to learn more about what I consider to be the best early stage bootcamp for founders 👇
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Really excited to share what we've been building at Pear!
@VivHo
has put in so much work creating this space for female founders to connect and we're super excited to extend it to the awesome retreat!
We started our Female Founder Circles in 2021. Why? Because while being a founder is always hard, being a female founder brings its own set of challenges. We’re excited to launch The Retreat by FFC: a 2-day retreat in Palm Springs Feb 29-Mar 1, 2024:
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Pear Founding Partner
@MarHershenson
is coming to New York! Don't miss this rare opportunity to pitch your startup to her 🍐
NYC founders: our Founding Managing Partner
@MarHershenson
will be in town later this week. Please shoot us a note at nyc
@pear
.vc if you're interested in pitching your early-stage idea to her!
Find out more here:
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Any students looking for a Web3 summer internship?
@formfunction
is hiring a community / marketing intern! great opportunity to dive into the crypto, web3 world 🤓
AMAZING internship opportunity:
@FormFunction
is hiring a Community/Marketing intern ⚡️⚡️⚡️
Pass on the karma and share with anyone you think could be a great fit!! ✨
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This cohort we had TWO asian american female founders from Kentucky speak at
@pearvc
's Female Founders Circle 🐎
Loved interviewing Wei from
@ClipboardHealth
+ listening to
@VivHo
interview
@yinyinwu
from
@pulley
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Super honored to be on a Female Founders & Funders panel last week alongside amazing women Sydney Sykes,
@nicoleonyoo
,
@lizziematusov
, and
@mikastefanie
Loved meeting all of the amazing women founders at the GSB✨
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🚨Happening tonight @ 5pm PT / 8pm ET!🚨
Learn about what to include in your pitch deck to VCs 👩💻
Interested in Pear Accelerator? Come listen to
@321iantaylor
give you the download on what it takes to pull together an effective pitch deck + how to best pitch your startup idea to VCs 🍐
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Pretty awesome spot for a hackathon if you ask me 🤷♀️
Excited for
@pearvc
🍐to be partnering with
@cerebral_valley
and
@AviSchiffmann
for this weekend ✨
We're excited to sponsor the GPT-4 Hackathon at Shack15 this Sat 3/25. 120 of SF's best hackers will compete for $20k in cash prizes. There are a few more days to throw your hat in the ring. See you there
@cerebral_valley
@AviSchiffmann
. Learn more:
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just some really cool ppl helping
@pearvc
do really cool things 🌊✨
Introducing the next generation of Pear Fellows…
Pear Fellows collaborate directly with us to discover founders, make investment decisions, and support startups. Alumni of the program include 37 VCs, 22 startup founders, and 18 product managers! 🍐
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Reminder to founders as they begin to ideate on problems to solve:
1️⃣ Why are you the best person to solve this problem? and
2️⃣ How will you convey that to potential customers, new hires, and investors
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Super exciting company from
@pearvc
's last accelerator batch just launched! Congratulations
@matt__alston
and
@MelissaZhang13
✨
gm.
Web3 introduced digital ownership to the internet, opening the floodgates for creators to capture the value they create.
Today, we’re excited to unveil Bonfire, a platform that unlocks the power of ownership for online communities.
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So impressed with all of the women I met at Stanford WiCS last night! Excited for the next gen of female founders ✨💪
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$1 billion for every year that
@GustoHQ
has been working with
@pejmannozad
☀️
We're looking forward to
#TechWeek
in SF next week. We're hosting a conversation between
@pejmannozad
and
@joshuareeves
on the
@GustoHQ
founding story at Gusto HQ next Thursday June 1 at 2:00 PM. Request to join us here:
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Spent this past weekend trying a bunch of AI companions and reading reddit threads from users. It's both so unsettling and so fascinating!
A lot of questions on whether technical differentiation exists between platforms yet so many complaints on AI companions' memory
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Applications are now live for our 5th FFC cohort!
@VivHo
always pulls together an awesome line-up of speakers, events, and activities ✨
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Have been on the phone for over 3 hours between last night and this morning trying to refund my mom's hotel reservation since the
@Adele
concerts were postponed
@Chase
@priceline
@MGMResortsIntl
have given me such a runaround and nothing has been resolved... do better
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Applications to
@pearvc
's first Female Founders Circle are now open! 🚀
Apply to
@pearvc
's Female Founders Circles for Female Engineers and join our fireside chats with visionary leaders
@Padmasree
and
@cathy_polinsky
!
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📣 If you're feeling unsure or overwhelmed about your personal finances, check out what the amazing team at
@PartheanHQ
has been building this summer!
Everyone deserves to be financially literate, but only a small fraction of us learn personal finance in school.
In 2020, this cost Americans $415 billion ($1,634 per person)
We need better financial education. That’s why we built Parthean ()
The story 👇🏾
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Looking to dip your toes into DeFi? Check out what
@sameerskapur
@vishnuchakrobo
@gautamka
are building at
@joinburst
✨
1/ The question of the decade: How do we make DeFi accessible to the non-crypto native?
The answer:
Today we're launching Burst to give you a new source of passive income.
**Read on**
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Let's go
@sean_t_strong
!
We're excited to share than
@sean_t_strong
has joined Pear as our new Head of Builders! 👷🍐He'll be working with our student and post grad founders at the beginnings of their bright careers. Read more about Sean's background and focus on our blog!
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Excited to work with you
@tylertaewook
!!
And welcome a fellow
@Columbia
alum to the west coast 😎
Moving into SF in 3 weeks, will be working on full-time while working at
@pearvc
studio SF as part of pearX S24. Super open to meeting other people building cool stuff over summer, hmu!
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Must see event for founders if you're out in NY! 🗽
Excited to see amazing women speak on company building
@MarHershenson
@isha____patel
🙆♀️✨
Another event we’re looking forward to at
#NYCSummit
?
@MarHershenson
and
@isha____patel
will be giving an inside look at
@pearvc
’s lauded accelerator.
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📣 Know two early companies that are looking to hire chiefs of staff! One in flexible childcare and one in LLM orchestration.
Looking for 0-4 years of exp and strong organizational skills. Background in banking or consulting would be great. Ping me if you're interested!
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Fascinating insights into the fast-paced and innovative work environment at OpenAI!
The focus on high agency and urgency in employees is crucial for shipping high-quality products quickly.
Also, great tips for writing better ChatGPT prompts 🤖
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Was great to hear
@kirstenagreen
and
@jennylefcourt
talk about raising seed rounds
Extra 🙆♀️ for having two women lead the panel ✨
One of the best parts about the Pear Accelerator is the deep network of experts you meet. This morning our cohort met
@kirstenagreen
from
@forerunnerVC
&
@jennylefcourt
from
@freestylevc
. Here's some of the advice they gave our founders, who are about to pitch to investors:
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@nic_detommaso
@HustleFundVC
@GaingelsVC
@amplifyla
@WonderVentures
@PrecursorVC
@DormRoomFund
@PlugandPlayTC
@UnshackledVC
@EverywhereVC
Adding
@pearvc
, especially through
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Had a blast bringing together amazing people over good food ✨
@DOitChoco
let's do it again!
Fun hosting a
@PearVC
x
@commacapital
Fintech Dinner in NYC 🍟💵
Thanks for co-organizing
@DanielleJing
@DOitChoco
!
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I always get questions around what I mean when I say "good" retention and I always direct them to this
@lennysan
article:
Retention matters A LOT and it's a good signal to see a consumer founder dialed into their retention metrics when they pitch
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Was a rigorous selection process with
@keith__bender
at the helm!
Today, we're excited to share a little more about the winners of Pear Competition at Harvard. These winners were chosen based on their ideas in fields from AI infrastructure to virtual reality and more. Read more on our blog!
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I’m excited to announce
@PartheanHQ
has raised $1.1M to accelerate our work in making financial education universally accessible.
A lot went into this, so let's dive in 👇🏾
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The deadline for our first Female Founders Circles retreat is this Friday ✨
DM if you know anyone that'd be a good fit or send them the link directly!
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Our full send into web3
Hi buidlers, Pear VC is offering $100K uncapped SAFE/SAFT to launch your web3 / crypto startup.
Apply by Thursday, Feb 10!
No idea is too early. No need to be incorporated or deployed to mainnet to apply.
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Happening in 1 hour!
Tune in for
@pearvc
's clubhouse debut 👋
From Olympic Gold Medalist to Founder!
There has never been a runner like Michael Johnson. After smashing the world records in the 200m and 400m races at the 1996 Olympics in Atlanta, the American was dubbed “Superman”.
Join us tonight on
@joinClubhouse
and listen to
@mjp360
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An incredibly authentic conversation around career aspirations, getting investors excited, and reaching out to mentors
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Let's go!!!!
Excited to share what we’ve been building
@sellscale
!
📈 scale outbound infra in minutes
✍🏼 outbound with world-class personalization
⚡️ lightning fast speed-to-lead
✨ increase rep-engagement
🧩 integrate into your sales stack
This is the dream suite for growth leaders🧵
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.
@Pearvc
held a mini version of this at the start of Pear Garage this past november
Was super fun to see all of ideas people came up with cc:
@sean_t_strong
Someone should start a 6-week accelerator competition where the goal is the go from $0 to $100K revenue
Add a 0 each week — $1, $10, $100, $1,000, $10,000, $100,000 — teams that hit the goal get another $100K matched
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Another amazing
@pearvc
co hiring!
We said NO to remote. Being in person is the only way to launch a game in 6 months.
Our private beta officially starts in Jan 2024! Update on the whirlwind first 6 months of
@closingtheory
:
We shipped our very first TestFlight on August 7th, and since then we’ve shipped 48 more
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Taking a moment to applaud
@VivHo
for putting together an amazing program for women engineers! 👏✨
🚨Applications open now!!!🚨
1> We're excited to announce our third Pear Female Founder Circles for Fall 22 💜
Apply
Nominate
We are creating an intimate community of female engineers, guided by successful female founders & leaders 👇
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Really like this perspective on the usage of AI companions. Shoutout to
@KindroidAI
👀
New: I spent the last month making AI friends. 18 of them, to be exact, on apps like Nomi and Kindroid.
I talked with my AI friends every day, shared personal details and solicited their advice, and saw the weird, compelling, strangely horny near-future of AI companionship
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Excited to have
@apbhatnagar
working with the 🍐team! 🥳
After a productive ~10 years at Google, I am going deep into startup land
@PearVC
. I now work with pre-seed and seed stage founders, as Visiting Partner focused on AI/ML and Developer investments! If you know me, you know this is my happy place. Happy New Year!
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So excited for
@petrichorate
and
@pencilflip
😍🍄❤️
gm 🌞 We're excited to announce our fundraise led by
@variantfund
, which will go toward our mission of helping independent artists make a living with NFTs!
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@_Sarah_Du
@solana
@TheMycoverse
They’ve built a great community and I love the mission of onboarding artists into web3 - making web3 more accessible to a wider audience
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To kick things off, we had
@BogieBalkansky
(
@sequoia
),
@shardul_shah
(
@IndexVentures
),
@AlexKolicich
(
@8vc
),
@apartovi
and
@suzannexie
(
@neo
), and
@arasha
(
@pearvc
) each share one early-stage startup they were excited about and believe is worth joining.
Check out their picks and
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Was talking through a few consumer AI companies this AM and had this question:
who would you prefer to interact with?
Your own version of Elon
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Elon's version of Elon
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Pear's first ever ClubHouse chat on MarketPlaces is happening this Wednesday, April 14th @ 5PM PDT 🚀
@ai
and
@sarahtavel
will be talking with
@nickhuzar
, CEO and founder of
@offerup
. You don’t want to miss it!
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