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Oct 2024
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How Two AI Startup Unicorns Went Bust

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AI is hard. How hard? Your company can hit a valuation of more than one billion dollars one moment and you're out of business the next. We look at two digital health companies that went from the highest highs to the lowest lows.

 

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