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Groundings with my Siblings: Lessons Learned Building for CommunityGreat Hall South · Conference Day #1

I had the privilege of discussing Blacksky and AT Protocol at several different college campuses, conference venues and other settings along with webinars and doing user research. I plan to share those learnings to help others build better products and how we particularly plan to incorporate those learnings from both a product and operations standpoint.

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