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Busted Tech (Short Influencers, Data Scientists & Fraudulent Founders)

Feb 01, 2018
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Congratulations to Beme for being an Inception-like failure within a failure. Little more than a year ago, the ubiquitous Casey Neistat (of "Bike Lanes" fame (video)) sold his company Beme to CNN for $25mm in what, to those who track these things, was very clearly an acqui-hire rather than a legit acquisition. Neistat and his team were meant to be a boo…

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