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TIL that the social media service Blue Sky (founded by Jack Dorsey years ago) currently has Lantian "Jay" Gruber as its CEO, and that by coincidence, the name "Lantian" (given to her by her Chinese mother) means "blue sky" in Mandarin Chinese.

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