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Piece is pretty skimpy on how/why Samsara is different than any other company providing low-cost, brownfield-targeted sensors. > “The goal is to make it really
by roymurdock 11y ago
Piece is pretty skimpy on how/why Samsara is different than any other company providing low-cost, brownfield-targeted sensors.
> “The goal is to make it really simple so the web site is in plain English and we make it easy to buy and deploy, Biswas said.
Piece was provided by Andreessen Horowitz, who was the only series A investor w/ $25m in May 2015. It's basically just marketing fluff.
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