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VP of Product @fi_dogs 🐶 ex @citizenapp 🚨 | ex @uber 🚙 | ex @apple 🍏 | exhausted

Westfield, NJ

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Joined January 2011

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1 year

Today is my last day at @CitizenApp where I joined 4.5 years ago as PM #1 . I helped get our revenue off the ground and was promoted to lead the Product and Design team. I learned a lot of lessons the hard way, so it felt like a good time to share my guiding principles. A 🧵 1/7

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9 months

@TradWife2049 Probably going to be called something like “Chief Taylor Experience” and go by CTE for short.

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5 years

@BillSimmons @Spotify @eldsjal @ringer Congrats to @BillSimmons for betting on himself, building his own distribution platform, and winning big. He’s been fun to follow these past 15 years.

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@InternetH0F The more people who travel to eat good food that Michelin recommends, the more wear and tear they cause on Michelin tires, and the faster they need tire replacements. A+ content growth loop.

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5 years

@samkottler Turns out monetizing lineage is a whole lot easier than monetizing talent.

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@daynamcalpine_ @KhanStopMe “Hot veg smoothie” would be a great rebrand for soup tho.

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1 year

@zackkanter Long term retention on IAP (Apple’s sub service) is much worse than on Stripe. Best in class 12mo on Stripe sub is 60%-80%. On IAP, best in class 12mo closer to 30%-50%.

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@zackkanter Apple bundles all subs into one area and if a consumer goes to cancel one often “power cancel” all. To juice services revenue, I expect Apple will move subscription management into individual app settings with affordances to pause, cross sell, etc.

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1 year

@lionel_trolling Ivy League

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1 year

@nikitabier The strongest play is the people who openly use that with a full time. Sends a great signal to your team. 😆

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2 years

@soren_iverson Now try Uber Danger where you can save 30% by opting for drivers who haven’t been background checked. (This was the gnarliest step in the Uber onboarding funnel.)

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11 months

@HipCityReg No one who likes music would green light that crazy pre download U2 on 100M iPhones stunt Cook did back in 2013.

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1 year

@fasc1nate Tom Hardy plays Houdini in the biopic.

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10 months

@nikitabier @FlyAerodome @aerodromefi @rahoolsidoo Drone defibrillator delivery will save lives in cities. Wild how many people die of heart attacks that are preventable if a defibrillator is readily accessible and correctly applied.

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1 year

@rrhoover Try this one

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Iverson (2014) ⭐ 7.1 | Documentary, Biography, Sport

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1 year

@zackkanter Not giving apps the right touchpoints to manage their subscriber relationships while taking 30% commission dramatically limits the investability of the iOS app subscription ecosystem.

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9 months

@sarthakgh My wife and I comment weekly on the absurdity of the rule. The primary issue is post covid there’s been a large spike in ordering groceries online and having them delivered to your car (a fantastic customer experience). Most supermarkets do this with reusable bags and don’t

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1 year

@_catwu Lobby the IRS to auto file taxes for people.

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8 months

@BingBongLLC LinkedIn needs an #OpentoChill badge for the people with jobs who need a break.

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11 months

@Austen My main issue with Perplexity is they don’t stuff irrelevant ads or dodgy SEO blog posts into their results. Finding myself really missing this charming feature from Google and the open web.

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6 months

@BenjaminDEKR His uninspired interview with Harry Stebbings dropping the same time as Zuck’s complete knowledge drop with Dwarkesh definitely accelerated this.

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11 months

@nikitabier Hmm, I see things slightly differently. Teen/college apps work because customers haven’t solidified their social networks yet and have the most to gain by meeting people digitally (hookups, friendships, etc.) Once you get to 30+ year old suburban demos, they have their

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8 months

@maybe_dan_ Best people I’ve seen code work on laptops, single screen. They just do it everywhere.

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5 years

Social platforms would be more interesting if “follow” was replaced with “subscribe for 6 months.”

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3 years

. @MarniHughesTV thanks for having me on your show tonight to talk about @CitizenApp . I’m proud of what we’ve been building to keep communities safer.

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1 year

@carlvellotti This is my Notion plan for Disney World with family.

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9 months

@jasoncrawford I call this PodCasting

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11 months

@BritMartinez This is a lovely story and reaffirms why me, my wife and (5&7) year old daughters are hardcore Swifies. I met her makeup artist on the 1989 tour on a beach one night in NC and she had similar kind things to say about Taylor. Taylor would duck under the stage between songs to

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10 months

@kevinb9n @Google Sometimes the best thing that can happen to you is other people telling you to step back and do something else. Congrats on what you’ve built. Am sure your next act will be epic.

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11 months

@andrew__reed “Improved NPS by 50%”

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7 months

@DrewLDickerson Moby Dick covers shipping in a big way.

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5 years

1/ I love working at @CitizenApp because I deeply believe in our mission to “Protect the World.” I wanted to shed some light on an important (and not well known) customer we’re working with in furtherance of this goal: Violence Interrupters

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4 years

@loganbartlett Showed this to my 3 year old daughter and she said “this tweet has product market fit.”

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5 years

Today I was called “contrarian” for deciding to leave the Bay to work for an NYC tech company. 🤔

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6 years

@micsolana The fact that mortgage interest is deductible while rent and student loan payments aren’t is a giant🖕to Millenials.

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1 year

@nikitabier You can have kids and build products in your 30’s. Just throw them in front of iPads all day and let the YouTube algorithm raise them.

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5 years

@rezendi There’s a minimum level of wealth founders seek to set their life on a trajectory where money isn’t a regular stressor. When you’re below that level, getting there soon is tempting. Above that level, more money is less interesting than the chance to build an empire.

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1 year

@devahaz “Uber should pay drivers more!” “Uber is too expensive!” - same people

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5 years

Tested UberCopter with @keithpeiris today. 20 minutes from downtown Manhattan to JFK was the closest I’ve been to teleportation. Service launches soon and only available to Platinum loyalty members. This could be part of a real competitive moat.

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9 months

@andrewchen 4 questions for every stop on their resume: 1. Why’d you join? 2. Biggest impact? 3. Biggest failure? 4. Why’d you leave? Tells you everything you need to know to get a feel for how they think, operate and deliver.

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1 year

@sarthakgh It’s all a vast dental conspiracy.

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6 years

@rrnn @BlairReeves I have a suspicion much of the stack could be pre-computed to dramatically reduce costly real-time calculation, but dynamic models are much more fun to build maintain than static ones.

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1 year

Two of my favorite podcasters, should be epic. Have an extra ticket to this and am hyped. Hit me up if you want to go.

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1 year

You don’t want to miss this! @patrick_oshag and I are doing a live show in New York City on October 19th Patrick has interviewed 300+ of the world's best investors and founders on his podcast I've read 300+ biographies of history's greatest entrepreneurs for mine We will

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5 years

@auderdy Must feel awesome to create that much value for others without building a corporate structure to capture it.

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4 years

@nandoodles Recently reading Flash Boys and then finding this thread reminds me how little regulation exists in Tech relative to Finance. I’d bet the SEC equivalent for Tech regulation will be created this decade.

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5 years

@aschrock @profmusgrave At Apple during the first 128GB iPhone ramp we ran our supply forecast from a spreadsheet model that I built. It was more flexible and faster than a (7 figure) IBM supply allocation tool which couldn’t elegantly handle factory capacity constraints.

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@InternetH0F In these cases I break into a spontaneous, fully clothed jog.

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5 years

I’d trade 50 Instagram likes for a single Twitter like.

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6 years

@SarahKSilverman @AOC lol it took me 2.5 hours to get the gov’t to create 2 pieces of paper for me at the DMV. @amazon can deliver most things in the world to my doorstep in less than 48 hours. Think we have very different “cost” equations.

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@lisatomic5 I’ve been buying my 1st grade daughter workbooks for 2nd/3rd graders and she sits down and knocks them out, teaching herself the concepts by trial and error. Learning how to learn outside of the confines of the classroom might be the most essential 21st century skill.

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5 years

Shout out to the Netflix PM who won the vicious internal battle to remove Autoplay video 👏

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1 year

@shreyas Hiring PM’s, NYC preferred.

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I’m hiring a Sr. Product Manager. Know anyone who might be interested? At Fi, we've created a smart dog collar + companion mobile app that's already an essential tool hundreds of thousands of dog parents. Our subscription revenue is scaling and our team in NYC is growing. We're

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5 years

Some personal news: recently noticed I’m beginning to go gray, meaning I’ll only have another 5 years to make meaningful contributions as a tech operator before I’ll be forced into VC.

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9 months

@Carnage4Life Zero Interest Rate Palihapitiya

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@jaiyagill My aging millennial feed would be pretty empty.

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1 year

7/7 As for me, I will be joining Fi as VP of Product. My family loves dogs and their product is the iPhone of dog collars. @jbensamo is a great leader building a great company.

Dog GPS & Health tracking | $19/month | Fi Smart Dog Collar

Fi Series 3 | GPS, activity & sleep tracking. Wired best tracker for dogs. Join the pack!

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1 year

@historyinmemes ChatGPT would work way better.

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5 years

Uber friends: I’ll HODL if you HODL.

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10 months

@Trace_Cohen Pretty sure they used that to buy their Yacht. Can’t have a yacht club without a boat.

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9 months

When I ask PM’s for the biggest impact they made at a FAANG:

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@shreyas I am hiring Sr. PM’s @fi_dogs . NYC preferred. Come build the Apple Watch for your dog 🐕

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5 years

@awilkinson Having 50K followers is the best kind of health insurance.

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1 year

@dustingetz Guess you could say their Cap Table is more like an Air Table.

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8 months

@nikitabier Screenshots or it didn’t happen.

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5 years

@lennysan @andrewchen As an early PM with @CitizenApp this resonates. Would also add: * establish process * create cultural norms * help with org design

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5 years

Your ability to pick the right problem to solve is a far greater predictor of success than your ability to solve any given problem.

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9 months

@shreyas Fi is hiring Senior PM’s; NYC preferred. You’ll be the first hire on a team scaling revenue via a subscription smart dog collar 📈

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5 years

Thought I’d take a page out of @ava ’s playbook and share my progression over this past decade. This decade happened to coincide with my 20’s, so hopefully this can also provide a helpful lens to others early in their #productmanagement career.

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I’m hiring a Sr. Product Manager. Know anyone who might be interested? At Fi, we've created a smart dog collar + companion mobile app that's already an essential tool hundreds of thousands of dog parents. Our subscription revenue is scaling and our team in NYC is growing. We're

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10/ At Citizen, we’re going to continue to work with organizations like this committed to protecting their communities. If you’re interested in joining the team, please reach out and let me know!

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5 years

11/ If you’re interested in donating to the Violence Interrupter cause, please visit: .

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@bchesky You also learn a lot about the people who win after a crisis.

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@seyitaylor So you’re telling me I could have retired if I just shorted Buzzfeed in 2021?

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@ArmandDoma Patented Newark Airport move

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7 months

My wife and I took 5 and 7 year old daughters to Disney for Spring Break and we crushed 4 parks during the busiest week of the year. Sharing our tips and tricks for my fellow parents thinking about a Disney trip during a peak week. Buckle up for a 🧵

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@JetNews_ Remove toxic relationships from your life.

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1 year

@yanatweets Adderall.

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1 year

Want to ramp faster at your new company? Start on the last day of the month. @LinkedIn gives you two months of experience in two days.

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@KCmolzer I’m an NYC native staying in downtown KC for the evening. What should I do?

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11 months

@RampCapitalLLC Plot twist: they all started posting on X.

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1 year

@TurnerNovak One way to extract value is to destroy it for free users and preserve it for paid. The risk is this damages your free network effect/growth flywheel but given Twitter’s stickiness I’d guess it won’t.

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1 year

@bzamayo Freemium apps will start launching terrible redesigns to let users revert to original behind a paywall.

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5 years

@mkruz Staying at Uber thru 2017 was the best decision of my career. I became a product manager and helped lead an end-to-end redesign for our most important customer-drivers around the world. Adversity compounds learning.

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6 years

Dumb idea I pitched at @uber : Futures market for ride prices. I should be able to buy a 1AM midtown Manhattan ride for this coming New Years and sell it to someone looking for price security as the date nears.

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5 years

@antoniogm It’s amazing how many problems that seem like they need full time help actually just need the PM to spend a weekend becoming dangerous in a new area (SQL, Figma, etc.).

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5 years

@tanayj Fraud at scale is insane. 2015 Uber in China had entire cities that “went bad.” Fraudulent requesters would overwhelm honest drivers and offer to split the ride promo (often 1-2x the fare) otherwise they would report them for bad behavior and deactivate them.

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8 months

@varunramg There must be some really high value “won’t fix” bugs in that tech stack.

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6 years

@AlokVasudev Source: someone bootstrapping an enterprise SAAS company with a $30K run rate

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4 years

Magic happens when this group gets together: @therealRoShow , @nanransohoff , and @BrianTolkin . Today, Apr 25 at 1:00 PM EDT on @joinclubhouse . Join us!

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@SeanWebflow Very down. PM @CitizenApp , formerly @Uber and @Apple . Email: darrellstone3 @gmail .com

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9 months

@jessechenglyu @rabbit_hmi Does this mean we can create a real world Pokémon Go by hiding stuffed limited release Rabbit versions all around the US? First one to catch them all on Rabbit wins.

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5 years

NYC product people: I’ll be giving a talk at @productschool tomorrow on “Building With Customers.” I’ll be sharing some lessons learned from re-designing the Uber driver app and helping the @CitizenApp transition from crime news to safety utility.

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5 years

PM’ing at Facebook be like: “We shipped a small change to the comment entry point and now the Bolivian government is about to be overthrown.”

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1 year

Apple absolutely should not punish this behavior. Let builders build.

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The app has cool onboarding but I’m not convinced we need another app like this. Reminds me of dispo & paparazzi from a couple of years ago. It seems popular among gen Z. I am out on this app already, hate the pyramid scheme. Apple should punish this behavior imo.

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2 years

Proud to be building safety products with @SirKneeland at @CitizenApp .

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I wrote about why I joined @CitizenApp (and if you're a recently cut FBer or Tweep, you should too)

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10 months

The darkest pattern in tech is Apple defaulting to Live Photos to chew up storage 3x faster, forcing boomers to upgrade their iPhone every year and a half.

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11 months

@GergelyOrosz Maybe laziness is a behavior reinforced by learning from humans.

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1 year

@thealexker @bchesky Replacing user needs with user values is a strong improvement on product development.

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5 years

@william_kyle321 @LilNasX My two year old and 6 month old girls both go full dance party mode whenever “horses in the back” comes on.

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5 years

If the secret is already out, you joined too late.

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1 year

This is really strong writing. An underrated method of evaluating TAM is the refresh rate for a given market. e.g. Apps that target high schoolers get a steady refresh every year, the housing market seems big but can freeze up as interest rates rise.

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