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by shafyy 799 days ago
Are Fortune, The Weather Channel, Fast Company, and National Geographic really your customers?
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Usually what this means is some small little team within those companies either signed up for a trial (using their @fortune.com email address) or they use it for some small little project. Pretty common marketing technique for startups. Not totally honest, but not totally false.
I had this same question. Also, are "developers all over the world" "happily using Zero Sheets"?

Based on OPs description, I wonder if this company was spun up while already doing business with those companies.

There are far more startups/products using that tagline of "used by developers all over the world"/"used by $x company" than our industry seems to want to admit.