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Meredith came to see me along with the CTO Marc Berte. Was there consumer demand? Did anybody hold patents that would prevent us from using this technology? I seldom hire patent attorneys during due diligence but this was too important. The more we dug the more confident we became (and so did every advisor we used).

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