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Articles by Tomas Laurinavicius
Tomas builds a portfolio of software and media businesses at Craftled, including Bordfeed, Epigraph Media and Laupix, a fully autonomous zero-human company. He bootstraps everything, ships fast with AI, and has been building online businesses since 2009.
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