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Consolidation is inevitable: CEO

2:45 AM ET Tue, 8 Dec 2015

Alex Depledge, founder and CEO of startup Hassle.com, says it was better to consolidate with a rival e-commerce company rather than to compete in markets or start an acquisition war.

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