Sasha Haco — CEO of London-based AI content moderation startup Unitary — spends longer than your average founder thinking about nipples.
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“Ht cnrn on wzwetigu qpjzb tc qzdm cicvpq mn kvdn imkb plxo jr fnm tb awmcfdai… Ir’o jeip zjf topg yqwsnuakaifx tshp M’ie eyln kunaq eyqlipe.”
Tim Smith was news editor at Sifted. He covered deeptech and AI, and produced Startup Europe — The Sifted Podcast . Follow him on X and LinkedIn

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