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Jeff Sauer Has Spent 20+ Years Fixing Broken Data
Jeff ran an Inc 5000 agency for a decade before selling it. He's trained over 50,000 marketers across every continent and 100+ countries, and built a YouTube channel with 55,000+ subscribers along the way. He started MeasureU because he kept seeing the same broken measurement setups at every agency he worked with and got tired of watching smart people struggle alone.
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