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Ellis Hamburger

Ellis Hamburger

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Freelancer

Ellis Hamburger works on the Storytelling team at The Browser Company. Previously, Ellis spent more than seven years at Snapchat across comms, marketing, and copywriting, and also wrote for The Verge from 2012-2014 about all things startups, social media, software, and design.

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