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Throughout her years working in technology, Jenny Wang, 28, always found herself stumbling back to one idea — a personal styling agent to help users decide what to wear and buy based on their budget, lifestyle, weather and calendar.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices 
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YC-backed Oway raises $4M to build a decentralized ‘Uber for freight’
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Ecosia has offered to take ‘stewardship’ of Chrome. And it’s not a bad idea.
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