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How the Buy Nothing Movement Imploded

Story of the Week with Joel Stein

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The Story of the Jamaica Plan App

The founders of the app decided that in the app, there shouldn't be any boundaries at all. So what you do is if you have the app, you open the app and you say, I'm interested in getting things from people within either like a.5 mile radius or a 20 mile radius. They eventually raised another like $400,000 also in the world of tech, not a lot of money. But then as you said, also they had $100,000 at first.

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