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Bodega. Or how Silicon Valley is screwing us all 😉 Part 2

By Gonzalo López Martí- Creative director, etc / LMMiami.com

  • It was founded with fanfare by two former Google employees, Paul McDonald and Ashwath Rajan, and is getting tons of pretty negative coverage in the media.
  • The business plan: replacing actual bodegas with some sort of novelty vending machines.
  • “Turning bodegas into a thing of the past,” to quote the founders.

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