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Austen Allred was homeless for 3 months when he was fundraising for his first company Grasswire, a media platform that lets everyone create collaborative news reports by voting on and fact-checking social media content in real-time. Austen was so broke that he couldn't afford to rent a place in Silicon Valley to meet with investors.
To still have a
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In 2003, University of Virginia gaming roomies Alexis Ohanian (History Major) and Steve Huffman (CS major) were starstruck with the entrepreneurial dream. Their make-the-world-a-better-place idea at the time was a food-ordering app named mmm😋(MyMobileMenu). During their senior year, Steve's girlfriend told him that Paul Graham(PG) was coming to
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