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Wow did the writer get fired from Vice?

I thought all of this was pretty normal for companies starting to grow.

Yeah sales/marketing always is scummy, but its 2018, do you think FB says I'm an 'active user' despite me only going on it 1 time a month? You bet.

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I thought all of this was pretty normal for companies starting to grow.

No, it's not normal at all. It's normal for scam artists and Silicon Valley and used car salesmen. But no, it's now how real businesses start and grow.

Henry Ford, JD Rockefeller, Andrew Carnegie, and Walt Disney didn't go around bragging about "doing blow on naked models."

OK, maybe Rockefeller.

Nice "No true Scotsman" you got there.

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