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San Francisco, I love you?

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🌉 San Francisco, I love you? Built with 🌉 San Francisco, I love you? RW I moved to SF when my co-founder, Laura, and I were trying to get more people to eat bugs. At the time, we had been peddling our cricket chips, or Chirps, to conservative Bostonians whose preferred diets consisted of Sam Adams and beef burgers, and most of them thought we had gone crazy. In fact, I remember meeting with a potential angel investor who very plainly told us after a pitch — “I’ve been an investor for 10 years and this is the worst idea I’ve ever heard.” He probably thought he was doing us a favor, but alas, our relentless optimism, untested after incubating our idea on campus, did not waver for even a second, and his words were oil on water. Laura and I visited SF for a week to “test the waters,” and we arrived on a sunny day in April, in time for Earth Day, and it was as if fate had opened her arms to us, and we were finally home in her warm embrace. We brought Chirps everywhere we went, and it seem

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