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NBC and The Economist paid Rosen's agency over $1M for DevOps

Zach Rosen · 1159 SF Company w/ $50m Raised "Of course we're burning cash!" · Sep 26, 2018 · at 5:03

Pantheon co-founder and CEO Zach Rosen describes the agency consulting work his team performed for major media brands prior to launching Pantheon.

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“So we helped rebuild Economist and projects for the NBC where you know, they pay upwards of a million dollars just on the DevOps infrastructure.”

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