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Dani Katz, founding director of Optalitix, would like to be the Caped Crusader, keeps on running, and recalls launching Vitality.
Explain your job to a five-year-old.
We build computer programmes that help people protect their houses from big storms, fix their cars when they have an accident, and pay for the hospitals when they
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