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Data is the Next Major Layer of the Cloud & A Major Victory for Startups

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That is excluding a single line of code or paying any salaries. I had been selling large content management systems and storing documents for industrial-scale customers. I see the same again with the entertainment industry. No wonder people had to raise $5 million just to get started back then. We raised $16.5 Think about it.

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