The Importance of Staying Laser Focused in the Early Days

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ai amaranth is our second big launch after Karen she's one of the world's largest if not the world'slargest female twitch streamer so very into that twitch gaming world and kind of cosplay world. We're spending a lot of time in LA lately for that and then also from enterprise which is really interesting huh. I'm someone who you know really loves building building things that are used in a wide array of of audiences however I've over the years in my startup journey I've just become so aware of the importance of picking something to just stay laser focused on.

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