“Zev's a PM at Meta. Prior to that, he was a PM at Wix.”
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“6 months later, just a few weeks ago, he sold a company for $80 million to Wix.”
“you can edit it visually like you can like you do in square space and Wicks and so on”
“he's been a PM at patreon at Wix at appsflyer”
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