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    "text": "It took us about 10 years to get to a billion deployments. Deployment is one of my favorite words. Every time you ship a change to your app, that's a deployment. And then in the next 10 months, the 10 months since then, until now, we've added another 1.5 billion deployments. So what took us 10 years, we've not sort of passed in just a few months.",
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