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From Gimlet this is the. I'm Josh Muccio.

In the last few weeks, we opened up the phone lines several times to hear from many of you.

And what you told us, in no uncertain terms, is that the effects of the coronavirus pandemic

are far-reaching and at a scale that is completely unprecedented. In mere weeks,

the virus has made its mark on just about every business in the country.

And so founders are asking hard questions, like,

should I change my whole business model now that everyone is stuck in their homes. Should I be aggressive

while everyone else is being conservative? And what do I do when all my best laid plans

for 2020 have been laid to waste? But when our investors got on the line to help, their answers were

surprising, even counterintuitive at times, and something else was different. It wasn't a critique

...