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Dear Client: We’ve known Pete Marino for 20 years — since he worked at Molson Coors for many years and now at Lofted Spirits (for the moment), and the one thing I often tease Pete about is that he seems to know everybody in this industry, and everybody knows him (watch our podcast with Troy Aikman, as an example). So the man is very well-connected and therefore is in a great position to give valuable insights into our industry. The
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Dear Client: We recently sat down with co-founder Max Schauff of LineLeap — the “Disney FastPass for college bars” — and Texas bar operator Garth Tubbs in Austin last week. For the unfamiliar, the line-skipping app has more than 2 million users and covers some 800 venues across 150 cities, up from the 1.5 million users and 700 venues it disclosed in a November round that valued the company at $200 million (with about $35 million raised, backed by Y
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