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Kudos to the Aptos High School Robotics Team for placing first overall in an international competition against 45 teams from 19 different countries.
 
If you want to know the real inside scoop of how Looker came to be, we're sharing a very readable startup story of how, in a little more than seven years, Looker went "from a single customer to more than 1700, from a small scrappy team in Santa Cruz to a 700-person company spanning eight offices around the globe."  
 
There's more so scroll down and start reading!
 
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