Is Viral Gross a Good Investment?

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Viral gross is a perfect example of why that mass doesn't make any sense. For fifty million dollar check, it's not nothing. Idon' kow if thy were the only investor in the round, but it's notNothing. It's also pretty downside protected in the sense that this is clearly a team that, at least from afar, seems to have been very careful. Does that make it worth two billion? I don't know, we also don't know if there were any other terms in there,. But let's just react to the sticker and say, if you think there's a chance that this is the default platform for that lane of professional life, then for...

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