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Digital Chocolate has 60% of its developers in Finland where the sun never sets in the summer and there is nothing to do outside in the winter, so we are very productive!
Trip Hawkins
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Trip Hawkins
Age: 71
Born: 1953
Born: December 28
Entrepreneur
Pasadena
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