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Tastemaker

YC Summer 2012 Inactive

Interior design marketplace and online retailer

http://tastemaker.com ↗
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YC company pages list founders in page JSON, but we only scrape a capped slice of the directory. Pull this slug with .venv/bin/python run_sourcing.py --sources yc_founders --slugs tastemaker then re-ingest. Open on YC ↗

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