Chaz Englander and Rosie Dallas, cofounders of rental platform Fat Llama, are speaking to Sifted as they prepared to pop the cork on a long-awaited bottle of champagne. The entrepreneurs, both 30, have just signed the final paperwork on a buyout from Swedish rival Hygglo.
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