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Hello and welcome to Daily Crunch for October 27, 2021! We are live all day at our SaaS event, which means that a good chunk of TechCrunch has been busy putting questions to tech experts and investors. But that doesn’t mean that we went light on covering the news. Hell, we even dropped a huge TC-1 on Bowery today! Strap in! — Alex

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