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Hustle是一家短消息初创公司，解雇了35%的员工。_我的网站

一 |     DAVENPORT, Iowa -- An Iowa woman who falsely claimed to have cancer and documented her “battle” on social media will stay out of prison after a judge gave her probation and a suspended sentence.Madison Russo, 20, never had pancreatic cancer, leukemia nor the football-sized tumor wrapped around her spine she that claimed in postings on TikTok, GoFundMe, Facebook and LinkedIn. But over 400 people sent her donations. As part of the 10-year suspended sentence handed down Friday, she was ordered to pay $39,000 in restitution and a $1,370 fine. If she stays out of trouble for three years of probation, she'll stay free.The Bettendorf woman pleaded guilty in June to first-degree theft. In court on Friday, Judge John Telleen declined a defense request that would have wiped the conviction off her record if she completes probation successfully. He said people who deal with her in the future should know that she once engaged in a “criminal scheme,” and that “serious crimes must have serious consequences.”“Through this scheme, you deceived your friends, your family, your community, other cancer victims, charities and strangers who were motivated by your supposedly tragic story to donate to help support you,” the judge said.Russo told the court she made her story up because she hoped her fake cancer battle would force her troubled family to focus on her.“A lot of people have made speculation as to why I did this and how somebody who looked like they had everything together could have such a mess,” she said. “I didn't do this for money or greed. I didn't do this for attention. I did this as an attempt to get my family back together.”Her sentence also includes 100 hours of community service. She paid the $39,000 restitution earlier, and the money was being held by the court. GoFundMe has already sent refunds to donors.Her scam unraveled when medical professionals spotted discrepancies in her story online. Police subpoenaed her medical records and found she had never been diagnosed with cancer at any medical facility in the area. She was arrested in January.Scott County prosecutor Kelly Cunningham recommended against prison time because Russo had no criminal history, had good grades in college, was employed and was unlikely to reoffend. That bothered Rhonda Miles, who runs a pancreatic cancer foundation in Nashville, Tennessee, that donated to Russo and testified at the hearing.“It was devastating to sit there and watch the Scott County prosecuting attorney act like a defending attorney, so that was tough,” Miles said. “And I think she’ll have a lot of questions to answer from the locals on that at some point. Why were you defending this girl when you were supposed to be prosecuting?”Russo apologized to the court and her victims, and said she wished she had sought out help regarding her family.“I fully acknowledge what I did was wrong. And I'm incredibly sorry," she said through sobs. "If there was anything I could do to take it back I would. The reality is I can't.”。北京时间1月12日上午，短信初创企业Hustle在2018年中期选举中与1300多个民主党竞选团队合作。然而，在选举后，该公司裁员35%。在最近专注于政界的科技初创企业中，争先恐后被认为是最大的成功案例之一。迄今为止，该公司已从全球汽车公司（GV）获得超过4000万美元的风险投资，包括社会资本（Social Capital）、Insight Venture Partners和Alphabet。公司面临的问题表明，将竞选活动作为主要商业来源的商业模式存在根本缺陷。

二 | Hustle首席执行官RoddyLindsay周四在博客上首次披露了裁员的消息。Hustle为活动、权利组织和营销人员开发工具，帮助他们向联系人列表发送定制信息。短信已经成为政治运动的一个重要方面，几乎每个主要的民主党机构都在努力，包括45个州的民主党立法竞选委员会、民主党全国委员会和民主党团体。林赛以前是Facebook工程师。他为马克扎克伯格的移民改革权利组织工作。2014年，美国和联合创办了Hustle。

三 | 该公司与伯尼·桑德斯的总统竞选团队合作，并迅速扩大了其他民主党客户。该公司还与其他权利和商业组织合作，美国在线汽车公司Lyft是该公司最早的非政治客户。

四 | 林赛说，他正在积极发展业务，以抵消中期选举后不可避免的政治收入下降。”我们必须走出去，与稳定的实体建立业务，这不会每两年消失一次，”他说。

五 | 到去年年底，Hustle有30个商业客户。但在2018年，政治活动和组织占据了Hustle的大部分收入。

六 | Hustle的问题是对其他初创企业的警告。在2016年美国大选后涌现的一批新的政治科技公司中，力争上游是最好的。挪威信贷银行（DNC）首席技术官拉菲•克里科里安（RaffiKrikorian）表示，许多其他此类初创企业可能比匆忙更容易受到攻击。

七 | 政治技术供应商在选举后正逐渐走向死亡，这是该行业的规范，因此许多投资者也会避开此类技术公司。然而，Hustle的投资者之一、高地实验室的合作伙伴Betsy Hoover表示，许多企业面临季节性增长和收缩。”许多行业都是周期性的，但他们做得很好。对于Hustle来说，2018年在财政和影响力方面都取得了巨大的成功。我完全相信到2020年他们会非常成功。这只是目标的一部分。

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