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Humble Beginnings

by @maccaw blog.alexmaccaw.com published 2012-12-172 min read

t's easy to forget the humble beginnings that great companies start from, and it's tempting to gloss over the fact that companies, now on the global stage, were once small projects with ugly designs and hacky implementations. Rarely do people set out with grand visions to create a

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