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    "text": "Yeah, I would say like, … skill that is trending … is typing fast. That is not that useful … Skills that are trending up is, you know, just great taste. Thinking about the user connecting to the audience that you're building for. A lot of ex-founders are incredibly successful right now, or like, you know, just like repeat founders. We're also finding this, like when we're hiring at OpenAI, like, you know, we have a lot of founders. I think we have more than 120 … founders currently at OpenAI. So it's like this mega startup.",
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