“I was a relatively new VP of product at headspace”
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Headspace
By Headspace Health
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“we were able to create a new product which we called it the Next Generation head space”
MentionsThinking beyond frameworks
“headspace had gone into like you know hundreds of people and calm like basically never lost money”
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