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1785.051 - 1809.758 Max Levchin

I think there are definitely things that you want in the hands of the customer as quickly as you possibly can. We have a prototyping team at Affirm that is trusted slash empowered to ship stuff that is not really beautiful or production quality even to get customer feedback, because it's really important to find out if something, some crazy idea that we have has any sort of odds of success.