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The term astroturfing predates bots/brigades. It’s used to describe any fake grassroots movement

A professor of mine once succinctly summarized that principle as:

Success = Outcomes / Expectations

You should check out HiHello. They market themselves as a digital business card, but it’s a powerful contact manager too.

This issue has been preventing new subscriptions for our company since around 1pm PT. We’re seeing an error loading our origin address within Stripe Tax settings as well, which might be helpful for identifying the source of the problem.

If you haven’t listened to Acquired, I highly recommend checking it out. Really great startup history podcast.