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Cushman: Kira Talent has scaled to 300 university campuses

Emily Cushman · 1288 $6m in ARR and Net Negative 20% Revenue Churn, How?! · Feb 2, 2019 · at 3:58

Emily Cushman, founder and CEO of Kira Talent, shares customer scale numbers with host Nathan Latka.

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“300.”

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