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Feb 2022
35m 49s

#244 – Building Gradually to Grow Sudden...

Courtland Allen and Channing Allen
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Today I'm talking to Shahed Khan, the co-founder of Loom and investor at Hyper. In this episode we talk about his first business failure at 16 and the many iterations Loom went through before catching on fire. 

  • Follow Shahed on Twitter: https://twitter.com/_shahedk
  • Check out Hyper: https://blog.hyper.com/
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