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The New Sourcing Reality
Cold email is saturated; the unfair advantage is in-person meetings in a Zoom-default world.
How it works
- 1Cold email is saturated. AI made canned outreach so good that people now recognize it instantly.
- 2LinkedIn inboxes are next to flood.
- 3The unfair advantage: in-person meetings in a Zoom-default world. Founders remember a 45-minute coffee far longer than a Zoom call.
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