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Startup Stories - Mixergy

Andrew Warner

Andrew asks challenging questions, which leads to real stories behind how startups made it.

210 Hacker News mentions · 16 episodes

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Suggests watching the Amy Jo Kim interview to become serious about game dynamics.
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#1001 The 1,000 interview celebration

Apr 9, 2014

with Amy Jo Kim , Shai Reshef , Jeff Slobotski , Paul Singh , Jon Staenberg , Tobi , Victoria Ransom , Avinash Kaushik , Kevin Hale , Todd Garland , Rafael Corrales , Jason Jacobs , Rand Fishkin , Naval Ravikant , Tom Rossi , Ben Milne , Ephren Taylor , MJ DeMarco , David Friend , Dan Shapiro , Clay Johnson , Oren Klaff , Sean Harper , Nick O'Neill , Chopra , Trevor Ginn , Paul Graham , Dane Maxwell , Andon , Hiten Shah , Josh Reich , Roger Dickey , Tom Preston-Werner , Michael Evans , Taso Du Val , Paras Chopra , Chris MacAskill

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Seriously once Andrew throws up the site on mixergy, you have to go watch it.
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#990 Andrew’s process for overcoming entrepreneurial stagnation – with Samantha Alford

Mar 10, 2014

with Andrew Fashion , Anne Holland , Team Wufoo , Andrew Gazdecki

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The linked Mixergy extract is very good though.
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#710 iContact Founder Returns To Mixergy After $169M Sale – with Ryan Allis

Apr 9, 2012

with Sridhar Vembu , Michael Ellsberg

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Step-by-step interview on when and how to launch a company and solicit effective feedback; launch imperfect and refine.
@oliviakuhn +2 more

#2307 Eric Ries: Why Anthropic Won and How To Build Incurruptible companies

May 30, 2026

with Nelson , Hiten Shah , Jerome Breche

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This was another quality Mixergy interview revealing Daniel's side of the story. The entire interview is worth viewing.
@loganfrederick +2 more

#1453 The future of chat (and interacting with your customers)

May 26, 2017

with Daniel , Owner of Twitpic.com , Timothy Chi

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I recommend listening to the Mixergy interview with Sam Ovens.
@mapster +2 more

#1417 How Sam Ovens is helping everyday people start their own consulting businesses

Mar 3, 2017

with Sam Ovens , Dane Maxwell and Sam Ovens

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Check out the Mixergy interview with Miguel Hernandez of Grumo Media for tricks on making simple product demo videos.
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#2290 He’s building an AI media empire

Dec 29, 2025

with Miguel Hernandez

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Mixergy had an excellent interview with founder Dan Shapiro in April.
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#2287 AI made a “no code” founder into a coder

Dec 8, 2025

with Dan Shapiro , Peldi Guilizzoni

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Super valuable for anyone that is a young entrepreneur; covers bootstrapping and dealing with obstacles.
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#1559 Cameron Herold coaches me on hiring (so I don’t collapse at my desk)

Feb 14, 2018

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Their Mixergy interview from ages ago, alongside the How I Built This episode, is worth hearing for the Airbnb founders' story.
@trustfundbaby

#216 How Clever Entrepreneurs Turned 3 Air Mattresses Into Airbnb, The Site That Makes Any Home A Bed And Breakfast – with Brian and Joe

Jan 28, 2010

with Brian Chesky, Joe Gebbia

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watch this interview from mixergy with the founders of hotornot.com
@maxer

#2304 “I make $4.5 million implementing AI”

Apr 23, 2026

with James Hong

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In-depth Mixergy interview on how two guys outsourced iPhone app development on Elance, often under $3k, doing about $80k monthly revenue.
@ryanteo

#2302 Superpowering Claude with 10,000 apps

Apr 7, 2026

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Direct link to the Mixergy interview with Miguel Hernandez of Grumo Media on making videos that get customers.
@DanielRibeiro

#2285 AEO: How to make ChatGPT promote you

Nov 11, 2025

with Miguel Hernandez

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Great Mixergy interview with the iTeleport founder on hitting $1M+/year from their iOS product.
@bosky101

#1050 How a former lawyer built a multi-million dollar company that teaches social skills – with Jordan Harbinger

Aug 13, 2014

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This was a fantastic interview, and I'm going to set aside 1 hour a week to watch more on Mixergy.
@dools

#400 Reddit Founder: “I Wish I Still Owned Reddit Now” – with Steve Huffman

Oct 20, 2010

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Watch the Mixergy interview with Seth Godin; he specifically talks about being different.
@rmorrison

#214 How To Produce Like A Linchpin By Understanding Your Lizard Brain – with Seth Godin

Jan 25, 2010

with Seth Godin

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Why Hacker News recommends it

Andrew Warner's Mixergy interviews with amazing people help entrepreneurs build better Internet companies, and they're all free.
HN thread · thinkingserious · 3 points ↗
Tony Hsieh explains the why and how of company culture in his Mixergy interview.
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An awesome, inspiring look at how Andrew Warner bootstrapped his first company, Bradford and Reed, into a multi-billion dollar engine.
HN thread · oliviakuhn · 34 points ↗
Also on Mixergy is the interview with Tim Ferriss, who got his book written about by tons of bloggers.
HN thread · jamesk2 · 0 points ↗
mixergy.com has some good stuff.
HN thread · czcar · 0 points ↗
His interviews are good, and what I do consume I find very compelling.
HN thread · teej · 0 points ↗
Mixergy typically has mp3 downloads of the interviews, so you can listen without a video window open.
HN thread · teej · 0 points ↗
Mixergy is the best tactical entrepreneurship podcast, digging into the actual actions successful founders took.
HN thread · yukai_chou · 0 points ↗
Lists favourite programming and startup podcasts, including Mixergy, and asks for PHP-focused shows.
HN thread · babyboy808 · 4 points ↗
Andrew's interviews are terrific, and they're aimed at aspiring entrepreneurs, so HN readers will find them relevant.
HN thread · ckinnan · 0 points ↗
Andrew is doing the best startup interviews anywhere.
HN thread · jwesley · 0 points ↗
If you're looking for good startup ideas, watch Mixergy. Each episode gives me a few.
HN thread · richcollins · 0 points ↗
Mixergy has fantastic startup-topic interviews, with audio-only and full transcript versions.
HN thread · JayNeely · 0 points ↗
Mixergy interviews go into the nitty gritty details that show the actual thinking behind actions, and you can ask your own questions.
HN thread · vaksel · 0 points ↗
The Mixergy interviewer always asks the questions people want to know, and the transcripts are a bonus.
HN thread · pclark · 0 points ↗
Another great interview from Mixergy.
HN thread · mihaelamj · 0 points ↗
Listening to Mixergy's interviews is a great way to stimulate the mind and generate ideas for your own site.
HN thread · vaksel · 0 points ↗
I think Andrew's interviews on Mixergy are some of the most useful content on the internet.
HN thread · pchristensen · 0 points ↗
They are so good that I feel compelled to drop what I'm doing and read them.
HN thread · breck · 0 points ↗
You want to listen to speakers/discussions about startups? Hit up mixergy.
HN thread · vaksel · 0 points ↗
Mixergy's content is stellar and nothing spammy about it; go watch some of his interviews and learn something.
HN thread · coffee · 0 points ↗
Andrew is the best person to pull numbers out of Jason; looking forward to the Mixergy interview.
HN thread · dshah · 0 points ↗
Mixergy is always a gold mine for me; the interviews by Andrew feel like the early days of Napster for favorite music.
HN thread · stevenp · 0 points ↗
Truly an in-depth look at WooThemes and how Adriaan was able to start up his business, with fantastic tips.
HN thread · tompic823 · 0 points ↗
Two Mixergy interviews cover Andrew's career: one where a fan interviews him, one where he talks to his first hire.
HN thread · chrisboesing · 0 points ↗
learning from Mixergy will greatly enhance your chances at that dream exit
HN thread · python123 · 0 points ↗
If I'm ever feeling de-motivated I listen to a Mixergy interview and the story alone can make me focus on whatever it is I'm doing.
HN thread · bendtheblock · 0 points ↗
You'll find all the information you need in this Mixergy interview, Law 101 For Startups with Bill Schreiber of Fenwick & West.
HN thread · nicolasgervais · 0 points ↗
Mixergy interviews have some of the best gold-to-chaff ratios of any routine information source.
HN thread · patio11 · 0 points ↗
Listening to a Mixergy episode is the ideal compromise between strategic questions and grass-roots detail on scaling problems and processes.
HN thread · bendtheblock · 0 points ↗
Mixergy interview transcripts of startup founders are worth reading, more valuable than attending paid lean startup conferences.
HN thread · plinkplonk · 0 points ↗
You might also try Mixergy, which has a bunch of profiles.
HN thread · percept · 0 points ↗
Lists Mixergy, Floss Weekly, and Techzing as shows the poster enjoys.
HN thread · soitgoes · 0 points ↗
Listen to video interviews of founders on Mixergy; they're useful for getting inspired about startups.
HN thread · Jig · 0 points ↗
Mixergy.com is where you should park yourself at least twice a week; it's the best place to get fire in your belly.
HN thread · krmmalik · 0 points ↗
Mixergy has a lot of very good interviews with founders.
HN thread · exline · 0 points ↗
Mixergy interviews are excellent (and downloadable).
HN thread · cj · 0 points ↗
Andrew Warner is great and profiles successful founders.
HN thread · msuster · 0 points ↗
+1 for TechZing and Mixergy
HN thread · Cmccann7 · 0 points ↗
Many of the ideas and info that I've been exposed to I would've never discovered by reading books or blogs.
HN thread · rubeng · 0 points ↗
Mixergy has the best interviews, and each one delivers a lot of value.
HN thread · espree · 0 points ↗
Mixergy often has highly actionable information based on Andrew's interviews, which can be really helpful if they match your industry or product.
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Jason Jacobs is an impressive example of a driven but non-technical founder who has made a lot of progress.
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Here is an interview with Khan done at Mixergy. Awesome guy.
HN thread · bcrawl · 0 points ↗
Recommends Mixergy, Twist, and Stanford Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders as podcasts worth hearing.
HN thread · newsisan · 0 points ↗
There was a really good mixergy interview where a top entrepreneur gave very good step-by-step tips on how to pitch to a VC.
HN thread · revorad · 0 points ↗
Calls Salman Khan a fantastic speaker and interviewee, pointing to his talk and the Mixergy interview as worth watching.
HN thread · revorad · 0 points ↗
First thing I would do would be to check out resources like Mixergy, This Week in Startups
HN thread · joystickers · 0 points ↗
You could literally listen to Andrew's archives for days; it's like a treasure trove.
HN thread · stevenp · 0 points ↗
This Week in Startups is high quality with great back-and-forth and a lot of variety. Don't miss an episode of either.
HN thread · jonathanjaeger · 0 points ↗
Andrew Warner has excellent interviews on Mixergy, roughly an hour each, and he asks tough questions about revenue and business models.
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First learned of SEOMoz on Mixergy, and found their blog to be a great resource.
HN thread · moge · 0 points ↗
A friend's startup is doing well in this space, and Lynsie was on Mixergy to talk about it.
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Don't miss the Mixergy interview with the (book) author.
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If you want to go the other route, listen to/watch the podcast on Mixergy.com from Nov. 24 on Beanstalk. That guy used a distributed team across the world to do development.
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Worth watching Dmitry's interview on Mixergy: it covers everything from the idea's inception to marketing and blog coverage.
HN thread · lachyg · 0 points ↗
You can learn a ton from Tim; watching him in action will make you a better entrepreneur.
HN thread · WillyF · 0 points ↗
Mixergy has good interviews on how sites built communities; the wallstreetoasis.com founder interview covers building a community from nothing.
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He did an interview with Mixergy in March 2009; a bit dated, but his main message about what social bookmarking sites want is still relevant.
HN thread · JusticeJones · 0 points ↗
Mixergy's interviews are insightful and probing without being obnoxious, and many talks are amazingly great; everyone should listen.
HN thread · rdl · 0 points ↗
Check out Mixergy: he interviews these kinds of people all the time, and the content is fantastic.
HN thread · geekfactor · 0 points ↗
This is the best source of practical info I've seen for learning how to actually execute on marketing, sales, and press.
HN thread · revorad · 0 points ↗
Listen to all the Mixergy interviews to see that startup founders come in all ages and walks of life.
HN thread · Dramatize · 0 points ↗
The following interview might be of interest: Beanstalk, bootstrapped and run virtually with Chris Nagele.
HN thread · keen · 0 points ↗
Look up Paul Farnell and Litmus, then listen to his Mixergy interview from January.
HN thread · stcredzero · 0 points ↗
Recommended listening for inspiration: mixergy.com
HN thread · underwood · 0 points ↗
Andrew Warner asked great questions, including why feedback from paying customers differs from non-paying customers; the Mixergy interview is always worth watching.
HN thread · benatkin · 0 points ↗
Mixergy interviews are great to listen to; the commenter downloads the MP3s and picks the ones they want.
HN thread · wmboy · 0 points ↗
Here's a great interview with the founder of JackThreads, and he goes into sourcing product.
HN thread · natgordon · 0 points ↗
Go listen through the Mixergy archives; the answers founders give about early customers are wildly different for everyone.
HN thread · petercooper · 0 points ↗
Points readers to an in-depth Mixergy interview with WooThemes founder Adriaan Pienaar for more on the WooThemes story.
HN thread · jarek-foksa · 0 points ↗
The part about pricing plans is the most important 45 seconds of your day if you have a SaaS app.
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Recommends Mixergy, alongside StartupFoundry and Founders at Work, as go-to reading for early-stage founders.
HN thread · jmtame · 0 points ↗
Mixergy is great for real examples of how founders actually build companies.
HN thread · starter · 0 points ↗
I think Mixergy is a no-brainer option for interview shows.
HN thread · dudurocha · 4 points ↗
Mixergy, of course, and I sometimes listen to TechZing as well.
HN thread · askar · 0 points ↗
A Mixergy interview with Scott Gerber covers bouncing back from rock bottom, finding a service people will pay for, and starting without moving back in with parents.
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Commenter says Mixergy's interview with Shopify's Harley Finkelstein has really good practices worth learning from.
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My favorites are TechZing and Mixergy.
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Dan Shapiro's Mixergy interview covers how he built the first version of Sparkbuy through outsourcing; transcript is free.
HN thread · revorad · 0 points ↗
Check out this Mixergy interview with Brendan Blumer about okay.com, since there's serious money to be made.
HN thread · entrepreneurial · 0 points ↗
Hacker News and Mixergy podcasts have been hugely influential. I can't believe how long it took me to find these resources.
HN thread · natgordon · 0 points ↗
Learn more about startups and businesses: start listening to the interviews at mixergy.com.
HN thread · saluki · 0 points ↗
Mixergy is hands down the best resource for learning directly from company founders.
HN thread · Dramatize · 0 points ↗
Recommended by someone who has arranged several of its interviews, including with Morten Lund and John Robb.
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Listen to Andrew Warner's interview; Peldi discusses early Twitter sales outreach and why it didn't work.
HN thread · teyc · 0 points ↗
Mixergy is awesome. Such a great collection of learning and lessons there.
HN thread · DSauter · 0 points ↗
Andrew has a talent for digging into founders' responses to get real, honest answers out of them.
HN thread · davidspinks · 0 points ↗
Lots of interviews to try out tactics, and Andrew is great at extracting the core ideas so you can test them yourself.
HN thread · WadeF · 0 points ↗
Has consumed the free Mixergy interviews for a year, subscribed to Premium, and calls it awesome and valuable.
HN thread · dools · 0 points ↗
Andrew Warner interviews startup founders, and there is a vast collection of interviews to watch.
HN thread · ayers · 0 points ↗
Mixergy is huge, with more of a business slant than Founders Talk, and its host Andrew is a friend of HN.
HN thread · petercooper · 0 points ↗
The Mixergy interview with Alexis Ohanian on how Reddit was built is a great listen.
HN thread · petercooper · 0 points ↗
This Week in Startups (TWiST) is very entertaining.
HN thread · daniel_iversen · 0 points ↗
mixergy.com is a great place to see examples of how successful founders keep evolving their ideas with customers.
HN thread · paulhauggis · 0 points ↗
Worth watching: it made me rethink what entrepreneurship is and motivated me to learn programming.
HN thread · biopharma_guy · 0 points ↗
If you're interested in direct, actionable advice that WILL make you money, Mixergy is the single greatest resource out there.
HN thread · taphangum · 0 points ↗
This was a really great interview though. Definitely recommend watching it.
HN thread · staunch · 0 points ↗
Commenter calls it their new favorite Mixergy video, covering a bootstrapped software product used in the White House Situation Room, pricing, paywalls, and funding.
HN thread · patio11 · 0 points ↗
Thought people might be interested in this interview with Eddy Lu on GrubWithUs' background.
HN thread · dazbradbury · 0 points ↗
Mixergy is a goldmine.
HN thread · revorad · 0 points ↗
Fried discusses some of these issues, including the legacy Basecamp customer migration questions, in a recent Mixergy interview.
HN thread · geekfactor · 0 points ↗
It's the single best source of business advice in existence.
HN thread · dools · 0 points ↗
Mixergy Premium is worth subscribing to because the content is good and you skip the random startup advice; implementing one or two tips pays for it.
HN thread · WadeF · 0 points ↗
if you're looking to learn something specific, a mixergy masterclass is a great way to do that.
HN thread · swombat · 0 points ↗
There's definitely some great interviews on Mixergy; the latest was with a female CEO of a spectral analysis hardware company.
HN thread · SyneRyder · 0 points ↗
definitely check mixergy, that will always inspire you as well.
HN thread · matznerd · 0 points ↗
Read their freely available stuff, then join and read/watch/listen to the great content they make available.
HN thread · mindcrime · 0 points ↗
Andrew Warner's Mixergy has over 800 interviews with interesting founders, an impressive archive worth exploring.
HN thread · andymoe · 0 points ↗
Personally, I recommend a Mixergy subscription. Even the stuff you have to pay for is well worth it.
HN thread · mindcrime · 0 points ↗
"Mixergy" podcasts, free on iTunes, are a useful resource for entrepreneurship inspiration.
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Categorically false, with a link to a Mixergy interview with Alexis Ohanian on how Reddit was built.
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I discuss my struggles and lessons learned from a failed startup.
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Commenter quotes Rand Fishkin's Mixergy interview explaining how SEOmoz's name drew on the Mozilla Foundation's DMoz and ChefMoz naming.
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+1 on Mixergy! There's lots of case studies on marketing, building a customer list, customer support etc. etc.
HN thread · cpayne · 0 points ↗
A recent interview with Swiftype founder Quin Hoxie on Mixergy is worth a watch.
HN thread · DanEdge · 0 points ↗
For intelligent interviews with successful entrepreneurs, you can't beat Mixergy.
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The Rand Fishkin interview is honest about running a business and burnout, and the Steve Blank moment is worth hearing.
HN thread · SyneRyder · 0 points ↗
Prefers Mixergy: audio-only, easy to listen to in the background, with a full transcript for quick scanning.
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Recommends mixergy.com without a doubt as a resource for entrepreneurship.
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Some Mixergy interviews from failed entrepreneurs that I've enjoyed.
HN thread · dools · 0 points ↗
Mixergy... the only one I listen to. It is the best!
HN thread · vblord · 0 points ↗
At the start of every Mixergy recording, Andrew Warner recommends startups use Scott Edward Walker of Walker Corporate Law.
HN thread · rahimnathwani · 0 points ↗
Check out this interview on Mixergy: you can pretty much follow what she did step by step; her blog does about $20k/month.
HN thread · taphangum · 0 points ↗
Listens to random Mixergy interviews and almost always takes away something valuable; likes Andrew Warner's respectful but probing interview style.
HN thread · kristiandupont · 0 points ↗
Mixergy does almost zero post production but has amazing content if you're in the startup space.
HN thread · JRutherford · 0 points ↗
Maybe the most useful interview I've ever done on Mixergy; the Twitch cofounder is super-methodical, so get the transcript.
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I like this week in startups, tim feriss, stanford innovation lab, and mixergy
HN thread · shuzhang · 0 points ↗
Andrew's Mixergy episode on a similar site is worth hearing; the co-founders are incredible.
HN thread · giarc · 0 points ↗
Mixergy interviews are genuinely useful, delivering usable wisdom from successful entrepreneurs, unlike Startup School.
HN thread · robomartin · 0 points ↗
Check out the Mixergy podcast for a talk with our CTO about our hiring philosophy and the company's mission.
HN thread · jhirshman · 0 points ↗
Mixergy makes a water tank that accepts input from multiple heat sources, including solar thermal, solar PV, and heat pumps.
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