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SendCutSend recently raised $110m from Sequoia Capital, Patrick Collison John Collison and Paradigm to help build out its manufacturing empire. We spent two days hanging with Jim Belosic (SendCutSend) to get the whole sendcutsend origin story and his views on what's real and what's all hype in the Reindustrialize...

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