turning mountains into molehills
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Alexis Ohanian's talk at the Next 10 conference in Berlin, Germany: Turning Mountains into Molehills.TRANSCRIPT
MountainsMolehillsAlexis Ohanian@kn0thing
TURNING
INTO
Guten Morgen!
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