Welcome to the Banana Data Podcast! We're a data science podcast focused on the latest & greatest of the DS ecosystem, sprinkled in with our musings & data science expertise. With topics ranging from ethical AI and transparency to robot pets, our hosts, Christopher Peter Makris & Corey Strausman, are here to keep you up to date on the latest trends, news, and big convos in data. If you're looking to keep the knowledge up, be sure to also subscribe to our weekly Banana Data Newsletter! Regist ...
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Bowery Capital is an early stage venture capital fund that focuses solely on helping portfolio companies with sales related challenges. This podcast is a discussion between the Bowery Capital team and experienced industry friends in an effort to help a younger generation of startups better understand the issues and pain points they will face when thinking about early revenue generation.
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Leveraging India To Scale Adoption & Growth with Ulysses David (Dataiku)
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Ulysses David, the former Global VP, Global Strategy / GM, India at Dataiku joins the Bowery Capital Startup Sales Podcast to discuss "Leveraging India To Scale Adoption & Growth.'
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Building Your Customer Advisory Board with Leslie Brand (Alation)
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Leslie Brand, the former Senior Director of Corporate Marketing at Alation, joins the Bowery Capital Startup Sales Podcast to discuss "Building Your Customer Advisory Board."
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Metrics Matter: Creating an Effective Sales Framework with Derek Draper (Juniper Square)
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This week we had Derek Draper, SVP of Sales at Juniper Square join the Bowery Capital Startup Sales Podcast to discuss how he thinks about setting up an effective sales framework. Topics include: Breaking down your pipeline by volume, velocity, and conversion What metrics matter, and what steps can you take once you identify a weak area? Prospsect …
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Building a Start-Up in a Bear Market with Baxter Lanius (Alternative)
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Baxter Lanius, Founder and CEO of Alternative, shares his experience around building a sustainable, profitability focused startup. We discuss 1) the difference in a Private Equity vs Venture Capital mindset, 2) strategies for fundraising and scaling in a bear market 3) why he made the jump from investor to founding and building a company.…
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Building a Product-led Growth Engine with Krishan Patel (Apollo)
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Krishan Patel, VP of Product of Apollo, shares his experience around building a product-led growth engine and discuss 1) how he shifted his career from sales to product, 2) how and why to shift a sales-led org to a product-led one (and how Apollo did it) and 3) what about your company and product needs to be right to know if you should lean into PL…
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Buyerside Chat: Ian Andrews, Chief Marketing Officer (Chainalysis)
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Ian Andrews, CMO of Chainalysis, joins to share his experience as a buyer from organizations like Chainalysis, Pivotal, Teradata, and Opsware. Topics include: 1) What separates a good email from one that gets instantly deleted? 2) How to do effective research on your prospect before reaching out. 3) What should you know about the company before you…
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Buyerside Chat: Reba Cox, Dir. of Procurement (MongoDB)
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Reba Cox joins to share her experience as a buyer from organizations like MongoDB, Philips, and ESAB. Topics include 1) what procurement actually does behind the scenes 2) negotiating price vs value with procurement 3) why procurement will never be your champion and strategies to keep them from becoming a blocker. Follow the Bowery Capital Startup …
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Buyerside Chat: Jonathan Cochrane, VP Operations (SaaSOptics)
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Jonathan Cochrane joins to share his experience as a buyer from organizations like EY, ScienceLogic, Higher Logic, and SaaSOptics. Topics include 1) how being able to adapt your demo on the fly leads to sales 2) why trying to show all your product features is like a terrible first date and 3) what he looks for when teams present vendors to him for …
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Buyerside Chat: Chad Wonderling, CAO (Salesloft)
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Chad Wonderling joins to share his experience as a buyer from organizations like Salesloft, Rubicon, and Ceres Global. Topics include 1) What is a CAO and how is it different to other finance roles, 2) what makes an outbound email stick out, 3) how to use LinkedIn to build relationships with prospects, and 4) why sales is a lot like dating. Follow …
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Buyerside Chat: Chris Spooner, SVP Finance (Rubicon)
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Chris Spooner joins to share his experience as a buyer from organizations like Rubicon and Novelis. Topics include 1) How to enable your champion to go get a "yes" and not a "go do more work", 2) the art of blind calendar invites, do's and don'ts, and 3) a cold call that actually worked and why it worked Follow the Bowery Capital Startup Sales Podc…
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Scaling Culture in a Remote World with Brendan Tolleson (RevPartners)
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Brendan Tolleson, CEO and Co-founder of RevPartners, joins the Bowery Capital Startup Sales Podcast to discuss 1) Scaling culture by simplifying it into Intentionality, Documentation, Rewards, and Ownership, 2) How to bring new hires up to speed culturally in the first 90 days, and 3) Mission and Margin: How to move at VC pace and pursue excellence…
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Buyer's Corner: Rakib Azad, VP Finance (Chainalysis)
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Rakib Azad joins to share his experience as a buyer from organizations like Chainalysis, MongoDB, Footlocker, and Ladders. Topics include 1) how to work with your champion and align your product to the company's priorities, 2) why not doing your research can (and will) kill your deal, and 3) pet peeves sellers should stop right away to avoid gettin…
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The 2021 Startup Sales Stack with Michael Brown and Eugene Godsoe (Bowery Capital)
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This week we dove into 1) Vendor consolidation with insights from Mark Roberge, former CRO of Hubspot 2) Marketing automation growth 3) Covid's impact on how sales leaders should think through data, coaching, and analytics 4) Prioritizing what tools to get and when as an early stage company. This report, in partnership with G2, is meant to serve as…
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Early-Stage Selling and Building Team Culture with Melanie Hallenbeck (Elevate.inc)
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Melanie Hallenbeck, Chief Growth Officer of Elevate.inc, joins the Bowery Capital Startup Sales Podcast to discuss 1) Selling into ENT as an early stage startup, 2) navigating procurement, and 3) how Covid has changed the sales culture landscape.
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Ethical Implications of Humanizing Your Data
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Welcome back to our bi-weekly episodes of Season 5 of the Banana Data Podcast! This season, we’re ushering in the notion of humanizing data science. In last week’s episode, we explored data strategy and how humanization can level it up. This week, we discuss the ethical implications of humanizing your data with very special guest and past host Triv…
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Welcome back to our bi-weekly episodes of Season 5 of the Banana Data Podcast! This season, we’re ushering in the notion of humanizing data science. In last week’s episode, we explored data visualization with Nathan Mannheimer from Tableau. This week, we discuss the ins and outs of data strategy from the individual level all the way up to the enter…
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Data Visualization w/ Nathan Mannheimer, Director of Data Science & ML at Tableau
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Welcome back to our bi-weekly episodes of Season 5 of the Banana Data Podcast! This season, we’re ushering in the notion of humanizing data science. In last week’s episode, we explored the importance of storytelling with data. This week, we discuss data visualization with Nathan Mannheimer, Director of Data Science and Machine Learning at Tableau. …
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Welcome back to our bi-weekly episodes of Season 5 of the Banana Data Podcast! This season, we’re ushering in the notion of humanizing data science. In last week’s episode, we explored the importance of human in the loop within the ML pipeline with Christina Hsiao, Senior Product Marketing Manager at Dataiku. This week, we discuss storytelling with…
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Early-Stage Enterprise Sales with Matt Cameron (SaaSy Sales Leadership)
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Matt Cameron, CEO of SaaSy Sales Leadership, joins the Bowery Capital Startup Sales Podcast to discuss "Early-Stage Enterprise Sales."
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The Importance of Human in the Loop AI With Christina Hsiao
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Welcome back to our bi-weekly episodes of Season 5 of the Banana Data Podcast! This season, we’re ushering in the notion of humanizing data science. In last week’s episode, we discussed what happens when humanization fails and consequences that can occur with Jeremie Harris Towards Data Science. This week, we are joined by Christina Hsiao, Senior P…
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What Happens When Humanization Fails? A Conversation With Jeremie Harris of Towards Data Science
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Welcome back to our bi-weekly episodes of Season 5 of the Banana Data Podcast! This season, we’re ushering in the notion of humanizing data science. In last week’s episode, we discussed differing methodologies and functionalities within the data science field with Emma Irwin, Solutions Engineer at Dataiku. This week, we are joined by Jeremie Harris…
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Methodology & Functionality in Differing Data Science Roles
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Welcome back to our bi-weekly episodes of Season 5 of the Banana Data Podcast! This season, we’re ushering in the notion of humanizing data science. In last week’s episode, we discussed how data scientists & citizen data scientists collaborate to deliver value to the non technical audience. This week, we are joined by Emma Irwin to discuss differin…
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Modern Marketing Tactics with Mark Jung (Dooly)
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Mark Jung, VP Marketing of Dooly, joins the Bowery Capital Startup Sales Podcast to discuss "Modern Marketing Tactics."
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Welcome back to our bi-weekly episodes of Season 5 of the Banana Data Podcast! This season, we’re ushering in the notion of humanizing data science. In last week’s episode, we discussed why technology’s long-term goal shouldn’t solely be efficiency, but actually emotional intimacy. This week, we were joined by Matt Dorros to discuss the rise of the…
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Create Technological Emotional Bonds w/ Creative Intelligence
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Welcome back to our bi-weekly episodes of Season 5 of the Banana Data Podcast! This season, we’re ushering in the notion of humanizing data science. In last week’s episode, we discussed how data insights can be humanized in an easily digestible manner. This week, we’ll guide you through why technology’s long-term goal shouldn’t solely be efficiency…
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We're kicking off Season 5 of the Banana Data Podcast today. This season, we’re ushering in the notion of humanizing data science. We’ll guide you through issues such as why trends and technologies matter beyond your centralized data team and beyond the tech industry and what it truly takes to humanize technology. Subscribe to the Banana Data Podca…
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Welcome to part 2 of “In English Please!” This recap episode is summary of our "In English Please" segments which are quick explanations of complex data science terms, processes, or phenomena distilled into easy to understand concepts. Think of this as your data science encyclopedia. Here is the second part of the two part series on “In English Ple…
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Most Important Traits For Early Sellers with Kevin Michaelis (Process Street)
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Kevin Michaelis, VP of Sales at Process Street, joins the Bowery Capital Startup Sales Podcast to discuss the "Most Important Traits For Early Sellers."
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Evolving Your Sales Tech Stack with Oleg Campbell (Reply.io)
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Oleg Campbell, Founder and CEO of Reply.io, joins the Bowery Capital Startup Sales Podcast to discuss "Evolving Your Sales Tech Stack."
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The Banana Data Podcast team is currently prepping for Season 5. In the meantime, check out a recap of all our In English Please segments. These “In English Please” segments are quick explanations of complex data science terms, processes, or phenomena distilled into easy to understand concepts. Think of this as your data science encyclopedia. Here …
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Link Building and Scrappy SEO Tactics with Alan Silvestri (Growth Gorilla)
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Alan Silvestri, Founder and CEO of Growth Gorilla, joins the Bowery Capital Startup Sales Podcast to discuss "Link Building and Scrappy SEO Tactics."
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Startup Strategy Primer with the US Government with Sam Pandey (US Army Reserve)
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Sam Pandey, US Army Reserve Innovation Officer 75th Innovation Command, joins the Bowery Capital Startup Sales Podcast to discuss "Startup Strategy Primer with the US Government."
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Early-Stage Startup Positioning with Chris Williams (Wolves Not Sheep)
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Chris Williams, Co-Founder & Managing Director at Wolves Not Sheep, joins the Bowery Capital Startup Sales Podcast to discuss "Early-Stage Startup Positioning."
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The Importance of Customer Marketing with Sarah Doughty (Crescendo Labs)
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Sarah Doughty, Founder and Customer Success Champion at Crescendo Labs, joins the Bowery Capital Startup Sales Podcast to discuss "The Importance of Customer Marketing."
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Banana Byte: AI Is Revolutionizing Biological Sciences - What Are the Implications?
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Be sure to subscribe to our weekly newsletter to get this podcast & a host of new and exciting data-happenings in your inbox! In this Banana Byte, our podcast hosts discuss a recent breakthrough in drug discovery catalyzed by AI and Machine Learning. What are the larger implications of this discovery and why is it significant? Check out what we're …
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In our final episode of season 4, Chris and Triveni discuss looming trends in data science and AI that will lead us into 2021. We'll touch on latency, normalized AI, citizen data scientists, and actualized responsible AI. Check out what we've been reading: Data Privacy & Security NLP & Conversational Analytics Gartner’s Top Technology Trends That W…
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Banana Byte: Data Tools We're Thankful For
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With the holidays in full force, we’re taking stock of all that we’re grateful for in our lives. In this Banana Byte, the Banana Data Podcast team shares the top data tools that they are thankful for. These tools make data science easier, quicker, and more understandable thus improving our lives every day. Be sure to subscribe to our weekly newslet…
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What Does It Mean to Be a Data Scientist?
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Today we’re sitting down with a roundtable of data science and machine learning experts from Spotify, PwC, and Google Cloud. What does it truly mean to be steeped in the data science industry and what considerations should be addressed as a practitioner? Roundtable Interviewees: Sanjay Agravat, Machine Learning Specialist at Google Alex Simonoff, S…
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Creating a Winning B2B Content Strategy with Devin Reed (Gong)
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Devin Reed, Head of Content Strategy at Gong, joins the Bowery Capital Startup Sales Podcast to discuss "How To Create a Winning B2B Content Strategy."
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Banana Byte: Using AI to extend People Analytics
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In a world of work that is becoming increasingly virtual, the volume of data available to understand and predict employee output is growing at exponential pace. People analytics by virtue of AI and big data is essential to managing and improving organizations’ effectiveness. Learn more about the article's we're reading: Tech Is Transforming People …
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How To Do a Brand Audit with Grant McDougall (BlueOcean)
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Grant McDougall, Founder & CEO of BlueOcean, joins the Bowery Capital Startup Sales Podcast to discuss "How To Do a Brand Audit."
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How The COVID Monitor Project is Driving Data Transparency & Access
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On today’s episode, we are speaking to Oscar Wahltinez, Engineer at Google and Board Member at FinMango, about his work on the Covid Monitor Project and the value of data transparency and access for all. Here you can find links to Oscar's ongoing work: The COVID Monitor FinMango.org Florida COVID Action Be sure to subscribe to our weekly newsletter…
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Prospecting Using Video with Morgan Ingram (JB Sales)
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Morgan Ingram, Director of Sales Execution and Evolution at JB Sales, joins the Bowery Capital Startup Sales Podcast to discuss "Prospecting Using Video."
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We're turning our attention towards the new Netflix documentary on the harms and potential of social networking: 'The Social Dilemma.' In this episode, Chris and Triveni comment upon the film's perspective on data commodification, accountability, and how the we can all be more responsible and effective creators. Take a look at what we're reading: Y…
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Banana Byte: Is Investing Your Time in Code Worth It?
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Core algorithms might only take up a few times of code and a few minutes to do so. But, the rest of the program may get messy quickly. In this Banana Byte, we tackle the question of when its worth it to invest your time in code and the trade-offs between developing something accurate vs. something quick. Be sure to subscribe to our weekly newslette…
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Excelling at Each Stage of Growth with Andrew Elliott (CRO at People Data Labs)
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Andrew Elliott, CRO at People Data Labs, joins the Bowery Capital Startup Sales Podcast to discuss "Excelling at Each Stage of Growth."
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The field of data science is wrought with many unsolved debates. Is data science nothing more than fancy statistics? What performs better: R or Python? Most crucially, do you need to be a great coder to be a great data scientist? In this episode, Chris and Triveni take these burning questions to the debate stage. Be sure to subscribe to our weekly …
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Building Your First Revenue Operations Model with Brandon Jones (Komodo Health)
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Brandon Jones, Head of Revenue Strategy and Operations of Komodo Health, joins the Bowery Capital Startup Sales Podcast to discuss "Building Your First Revenue Operations Model."
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Typically when the average person thinks of bots, it rings with a negative connotation. Bots are immediately associated with spam and fake personas. But, is there a positive flip side to this coin? Listen to our 15-minute Banana Byte to find out. This is one of our Banana Byte series- which are short, bi-weekly segments we run live on LinkedIn and …
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In this episode, Chris and Triveni take a deeper look at CAPTCHA, a completely automated system that has become a nearly inevitable part of a user's online experience. How did complete automation of this system give rise to complications and exclusion of a smaller subset of the online community? How do you distinguish between pure artificial intell…
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