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“Do you think the product market fit show has product market fit?”

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That's product market fit. Product market fit. Product market fit. I called it the product market fit question. Product market fit. Product market fit. Product market fit. Product market fit. I mean, the name of the show is product market fit.

Do you think the product market fit show has product market fit? Because if you do, then there's something you just have to do. You have to take up your phone. You have to leave the show five stars. It lets us reach more founders, and it lets us get better guests. Thank you. Max, welcome to the show. Thanks, Pablo. It's good to be here. Dude, so, I mean, I'm I'm looking at Crunchbase here. And if if I have the numbers right, you start this maybe two years ago, like, early twenty twenty three, maybe two and a half years ago. You get into YC in April,

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