Black: Cobalt has over 2,500 suppliers on its platform
Elle Black · Can This Marketplace Help Influencers Make More Money? · Jan 23, 2022 · at 2:02
Elle Black, founder of Cobalt.co, describes the scale of suppliers aggregated on her platform.
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“Well, we have, so we have over 2500 suppliers in the platform.”
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