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Ben Anderson is not obsessed with anime, but the 26-year-old entrepreneur is fascinated by people who are. In fact, that fandom is exactly what inspired him to create a startup that now boasts millions of users.

Walking around the Prudential Center in Boston four years ago, Anderson and his then-classmate at Northeastern University, now-cofounder Yin Wang, came across thousands of attendees of Anime Boston. The convention draws 30,000 people to the city every year. 

“They completely took over the mall, these people all dressed in costumes. For me, it was this crazy experience of all these complete strangers around the world converging and making friends, but for my cofounder, he was like, ‘These are my people,’” Anderson said. Read more…

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