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Introducing Builders, a new video series from Kleiner Perkins, hosted by Josh Coyne and "Leigh Marie" Braswell. Filmed around our kitchen table in San Francisco, each episode is a focused conversation with founders and operators building category-defining companies. The first two episodes coming up feature Adam Swiecicki (Rippling), Michael...

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