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Joe Procopio is the Chief Product Officer at Get Spiffy, an on-demand, mobile vehicle care and maintenance startup. Prior to that, he was Chief Product Officer at Automated Insights and Founder and CEO of ExitEvent. He's on Twitter @jproco and can be reached at joeprocopio.com
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It’s Cool, Triangle, We Didn’t Want Amazon Anyway

November 13, 2018 Joe Procopio
I’ve kept my mouth shut on whether the Triangle would or should land Amazon HQ2 since the day the possibility was announced. If you had asked me, I would have […]

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