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Re:Amazon met with startups about investing, then launched c... by dataminded on Thursday July 23, 2020 @07:44PM (#23934060)
For web and mobile app stuff this type of competitive intelligence is very available (builtwith, datanyze, etc). Also, startups never shut up about who their clients are, social proof to land more deals.

*typo

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Re:Amazon met with startups about investing, then launched c... by thomasahle on Sunday July 26, 2020 @02:21PM (#23958997)
> startups never shut up about who their clients are, social proof to land more deals.

I read it as they scraped user databases to get email addresses and the like.

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