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Let's help you thrive in your 9 to 5. of social media, the whole point of us being online is to show and tell other people about ourselves and our lives and our personalities and we don't really do that on Facebook or Instagram or Twitter or Snapchat anymore. Yeah, that's when I kind of was like there's a huge... or a

Snapchat anymore. Yeah, that's when I kind of was like there's a huge business opportunity here.

Welcome to the Real Real, where we go behind the highlight rail and go into the

unfiltered. I'm your host Natalie Barboo and let's get into it. Hello Lily. I am so excited that you're on my podcast because did we meet for the first time in January?

We met for the first time in person in January, but I had heard about you through so many mutual friends who are in this space who are creators or tech founders.

I feel like I'd already known you, plus I feel like we're both very active on social media.

Yeah, yeah. So it's always one of those things where you meet, but you already know a bit about them.

I know there's so many people now that I'll meet in person, but I'm like,

oh yeah, I don't even register that it's the first time

we're meeting because we've been following each other

or I've seen their posts and just like feels like,

I know them that like the lines get blurred

of when we actually like started like meeting or hanging out

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