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dataminded on July 23, 2020 | parent | context | favorite | on: Amazon met with startups about investing, then lau...

For web and mobile app stuff this type of competitive intelligence is very available (builtwith, datanyze, etc). Also, startups never shut up about who their clients are, social proof to land more deals.

*typo

thomasahle on July 26, 2020 [–]

> startups never shut up about who their clients are, social proof to land more deals.

I read it as they scraped user databases to get email addresses and the like.

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