Best SSI Strategy Podcasts (2024)

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Adrian Field - OneID’s Approach to Driving BankID Adoption in the UK 46:55

1d ago46:55

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In this episode we talk with Adrian Field, the Director of Market Development at OneID, which is a bank-based identity verification product focused on the UK market. We cover a range of topics, including: How they apply a revenue-share model to incentivize banks to participate in their ecosystem The main use cases they’re focusing on in their go-to…

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Taylor Liggett - ID.me’s Strategy for Adoption, Monetization, and Brand for 100 Million Wallets and Beyond 29:14

23d ago29:14

29:14

In today’s episode we spoke with Taylor Liggett, Chief Growth Officer of ID.me, which is the largest reusable ID network in the United States and may be the largest private digital ID network in the world. With over 100 million user wallets and $150 million in revenue, ID.me has figured some things out about reusable ID adoption and monetization. W…

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Eric Scouten - Adobe’s Leading Role in the Content Authenticity Boom 36:17

1M ago36:17

36:17

On today’s episode we talked with Eric Scouten, Senior Engineering Manager at Adobe, who has been working for the last four years on solving content authenticity. What does that mean? We’ll get into it in the episode, but suffice it to say that it’s an effort to bring trust to content online. Was the pope really photographed in that puffy jacket? W…

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Adam Gunther - Tactical Insights from Equifax and IBM on Driving Reusable Identity Adoption 30:42

2M ago30:42

30:42

On today’s episode we spoke to Adam Gunther, SVP and General Manager of Digital Solutions at Equifax. This was a fascinating conversation about Adam’s journey leading decentralized identity at IBM, moving into an operating role within Equifax, and how their reusable identity strategy has evolved over time. We talk about tactical factors that are ne…

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Lessons In Biotechs with Bold Missions : 29 26:18

2M ago26:18

26:18

In this episode of the Emerging Biotech Leader podcast, hosts Kim Kushner and Ramin Farhad are joined by Bob Honigberg to further discuss the considerable challenge of achieving bold missions in healthcare. Building on their discussion from Episode 28 where they interviewed Cleerly Health founder Dr. Jim Ninh, the episode provides useful perspectiv…

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Phil Windley - Identity Metasystems and Lessons from Building the Sovrin Foundation 35:02

2M ago35:02

35:02

In this episode we talk with Phil Windley, Sr. Software Development Manager at AWS, Cofounder of IIW, former Chair of Sovrin Foundation. We talked about his experience building and leading the Sovrin Foundation, which at one point was almost synonymous with the term self-sovereign identity. It was set up to be an identity metasystem that would rein…

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Lessons In Clinical Trials With The Unlikely Entrepreneur - Jim Min : 28 38:06

2M ago38:06

38:06

"I believe that we can eradicate heart attacks from this world...If we can leverage these tools to accomplish those three goals, whether it's in coronary heart disease, valvular heart disease, myocardial disease, et cetera, et cetera, I think that's going to not be a slight improvement. I think it's going to be a game changer in terms of improving …

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Nick Thomas: Finicity’s Journey from Personal Finance App to $985M Acquisition for their Open Banking Platform 38:21

3M ago38:21

38:21

Today we talked with Nick Thomas, cofounder of Finicity, which was acquired by Mastercard, where Nick went on to be the EVP of Global Open Finance Innovation. Nick has a fascinating career that has paralleled digital identity for a long time, as a cofounder of Bluetooth and FDX, the major open banking standards body in the US. These are both organi…

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Building A Biotech : 27 23:07

3M ago23:07

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“I think outcomes for a lot of people means meeting milestones. So hitting that next clinical milestone, CMC milestone, et cetera, and that's, I think, one way of looking at it. Still, it's also about the culmination of outcomes and achieving something greater than bringing together one discipline and one win." ~ Adriana Valenciano, SVP, SSI Strate…

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Jacques von Benecke: Launching National-Scale Self Sovereign Identity in Bhutan 52:32

3M ago52:32

52:32

In this episode, we talk with Jacques von Benecke, CTO of DHI, the commercial and investment arm of the government of Bhutan. If you haven’t heard, Bhutan has launched one of the most complete SSI ecosystems in the world! We spent most of the time diving in to how it’s going since launching just a few months ago. We get into metrics, like how many …

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Jon Gelsey: Identity Product GTM Insight from Auth0’s Early Days 36:43

4M ago36:43

36:43

In this episode, we talk with Jon Gelsey, founding CEO of Auth0 Inc, which sold to Okta for $6.5B, as well as the CEO of Xnor.ai which he sold to Apple for $200m. Jon told the story of the early days of Auth0, including how they got their first $1m of revenue. Then we spent time diving in to how new technologies get adopted—Jon even went as far as …

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Recalibrating Early Stages of Corporate Build - Johan Strömquist : 26 27:33

5M ago27:33

27:33

“Getting a drug to market is a change journey. The whole process is a change journey. And we pass through so many different stages and gates on the way there: we need to adapt almost regardless of circumstances, even if everything goes according to plan, we have to shift.” Johan Stromquist, President, NDA Group As the quote above alludes, launching…

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When's the Best Time to Think About Safety? It's Now - Gregory Fiore : 25 27:48

5M ago27:48

27:48

“The reality is that the earlier one thinks about and invests in a safety process and a safety system, the more dividends that early thinking pays downstream.” Dr. Greg Fiore Harvard-Trained Physician. McKinsey Consultant. Startup Advisor. These are just a few of the titles that describe our next guest, Dr. Greg Fiore. As one might imagine, with th…

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Harrison Tang: Spokeo’s Vision of a “People Search Engine” Powered by Verifiable Credentials 34:10

5M ago34:10

34:10

In this episode, we sit down with Harrison Tang, Co-founder and & CEO of Spokeo, which is a “people search engine”. Spokeo aggregates many sources of data about people and sells that data to verifiers. So at first blush, Harrison is an unlikely person to be a massive advocate for SSI and co-chair of the W3C Credentials Community Group. We dig in to…

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Cultivating A Culture of Safety - Jason Campagna : 24 42:58

6M ago42:58

42:58

“Safety doesn't live outside of you. It's not a yellow ribbon that you wear in hospitals that says, ‘it's patient safety week.’ It's not a sign in your office that says, ‘this is patient safety month.’ It's a consequence of how we approach our work on a day-to-day and hour to hour basis. And it's by definition, therefore, an emergent property of wh…

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Carlos Korten: Lessons Learned From Bindle’s Health Pass 46:10

6M ago46:10

46:10

In this episode, we chat with Carlos Korten, Co-founder & Chief Product Officer of Bindle Systems. Bindle built one of the largest private-sector deployments of decentralized identity in the USA, and Carlos shares tons of stories from the trenches of getting hundreds of thousands of consumers on board. We dive in to the go-to-market strategies Bind…

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Launch & Leadership In Early Biotech : 23 26:44

6M ago26:44

26:44

“It's not always smooth sailing or a straight line path. So being able to address those different inflection points, being able to resource accordingly, flex in, flex out, and really focus on ‘what are the most important priorities?’ Make sure you're addressing those, the ‘must haves’ versus the ‘nice to haves.’” Jacqui Levine, Vice President, SSI …

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Nate Soffio: Reusable Identity in Financial Services 57:57

7M ago57:57

57:57

In this episode, we sit down with Nate Soffio, Co-founder and & CEO of Portabl. Nate is applying decentralized identity to fintech and open banking, which is such an important but also challenging use case. We discuss the ins and outs of Portabl’s user experience and how it differs from other reusable KYC products. Nate also provides insight into l…

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The Myth Of The Industry Sellout - Benit Maru : 22 33:20

7M ago33:20

33:20

“You're actually able to make a difference, not just at your local level or your regional level, but much more on a global level. You know, you may be one of the lucky few that is able to get involved in guideline development and those guidelines are then applicable across the world.’” Benit Maru, Senior Vice President, SSI Strategy “Should I stay …

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Andrew Black: Building Bank-Backed Digital ID in Australia 42:48

8M ago42:48

42:48

In this episode, we speak with Andrew Black, Managing Director of ConnectID, which is part of Australian Payments Plus. Andrew, who is an expert in the convergence of IDtech and open banking, sheds light on a unique approach to building bank-backed digital identity and the user experience that it enables. It was fascinating to unpack the role gover…

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Following a Drug Through Development In Pursuit of a Passion - Victoria Niklas : 21 38:35

8M ago38:35

38:35

“I will always have deep empathy for patients and want to do the best that I can, but I feel very satisfied that I'm driving development of OHB 607, which has the potential to change the trajectory. So, I don't have to sit and remind myself why I'm doing that–there are patients on the other end.” Victoria Niklas How can you break into biotech from …

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Sarah Clark: Mastercard’s ID Network 46:30

8M ago46:30

46:30

In this episode, we sit down with Sarah Clark, SVP of Digital Identity at Mastercard, to discuss Mastercard’s ID network. As one of the world’s largest payments networks, Mastercard has been on the leading edge of reusable identity. Sarah takes us into Mastercard’s corporate strategy related to identity, plus some of the specific go-to-market strat…

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Keith Uber: Organizational Identity and vLEIs 32:25

8M ago32:25

32:25

In this episode, we sit down with Keith Uber, VP of Sales Engineering at Ubisecure, to discuss the role of verifiable credentials in identity and access management. Keith shares his insights on Organizational Identity and how vLEIs change the game, create new business opportunities, and unlock efficiencies for representatives of businesses to trans…

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Changing the Patient Care Paradigm - Leah Damesek : 20 22:52

9M ago22:52

22:52

“There are clear distinctions, as we've talked about, between device and pharma from a medical affairs perspective. I think they each require this special touch and strategic medical affairs plan, but I think what we're also converging on is that they’re almost more similar than we think.’” Leah Damesek, Vice President of Medical Affairs, SSI Strat…

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Ankur Patel: Microsoft’s Decentralized Identity Product—Entra Verified ID 31:36

9M ago31:36

31:36

Today’s guest is Ankur Patel, Head of Product at Entra Verified ID which is Microsoft’s decentralized identity product. We begin the conversation by reviewing Microsoft’s storied history of identity initiatives, and why one of the world’s most valuable companies made decentralized identity one of their major focus areas. We dive into the recent ann…

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Bringing Paradigm Changing Devices To Market - Shon Chakrabarti : 19 33:04

10M ago33:04

33:04

“My primary advice is to get comfortable with discomfort right away and open your mind to how your particular skill set can benefit patients on this tremendously big scale.’” Shon Chakrabarti MD MPH, Vice President, and General Manager Chronic Venous Therapies, Inari Medical. Episode 19 of the Emerging Biotech Leader commemorates a milestone. This …

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Eric Starr: Verifiable Credential Adoption in Government 35:22

10M ago35:22

35:22

Today’s guest is Eric Starr, Co-founder & CEO of UltraPass ID—an IDtech product for governments. Eric shares his story trying to solve civic problems through the political system via Andrew Yang’s presidential campaign and how he ended up starting a company to reimagine how citizens interact with government. We go through the problem caused by many…

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Pioneering With Patients First - Kate Goldstein : 18 22:34

10M ago22:34

22:34

“A lot of the work is in asking ‘how do we distill this down into the simplest, most digestible narrative that feels obvious when you hear it back?’” Kim Kushner, Chief Business Officer, SSI Strategy. Episode 18 of the Emerging Biotech Leader welcomes a new voice to the show: Kate Goldstein, Senior Vice President of SSI. Fresh off the heels of Epis…

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Timothy Ruff: The Difference Between a Use Case and a Business Case 39:21

11M ago39:21

39:21

Today’s guest is Timothy Ruff, General Partner at Digital Trust Ventures. Timothy is an early pioneer of self-sovereign identity as a co-founder of Evernym, a co-creator of Sovrin, and an advisor to several IDtech startups. Timothy has countless battle scars from being on the ground floor of so much innovation in the decentralized identity space. I…

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Pioneering In The Emerging Field Of Digital Therapeutics - Scott Xiao : 17 32:39

11M ago32:39

32:39

“I won't say that we had this all planned out because when I started, it was just a crazy idea that we were excited about, but it ended up working out really well where we're trying to create a new class of medicine with digital therapeutics or with prescription digital therapeutics.” Scott Xiao, Co-Founder and CEO, Luminopia. What’s possible when …

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How To Juggle Priorities As A CMO - Hootan Khatami : 16 22:36

12M ago22:36

22:36

“You may not have the resources as a CMO, especially with smaller biotech companies, but you have to be resourceful.” Ramin Farhood, Senior Vice President, SSI Strategy Every guest on the Emerging Biotech Leader builds on the insights from our previous contributors while also adding their own unique best practices, analogies and experience. In that…

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Manny Nijjar: Lessons Learned From the NHS Staff Passport 24:37

12M ago24:37

24:37

Today’s guest is Manny Nijjar, co-founder and CEO of Truu, which is a healthcare-focused IDtech product that’s been involved in one of the most impressive production verifiable credentials rollouts to date. Their platform, alongside a handful of other vendors, helped the largest health system in the world respond to the COVID-19 pandemic—all while …

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Navigating The CMO Role - Chris Morabito : 15 44:32

12M ago44:32

44:32

“The expansions of your expertise and your external network are two key fundamental things that one should be focusing on as you think about developing your career towards a CMO pathway.” Dr. Christopher Morabito, Astria Therapeutics. Welcome to this week’s Emerging Biotech Leader recap. In our previous Episodes, we touched on the topic of careers …

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Medical Affairs Should Start Long Before Product Launch : 14 30:07

1y ago30:07

30:07

In Medical Affairs, timing is everything. If we had to summarize this next Episode of the Emerging Biotech Leader in one sentence, it would be “a deeper dive on both the impact and importance of Medical Affairs,” inspired by our interview with Rachel Couchenour in Episode 13. But that single sentence alone wouldn’t convey the robust takeaways and m…

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Evin McMullen: Verifiable Credentials in the Metaverse 43:40

1y ago43:40

43:40

Today’s guest is Evin McMullen, co-founder and CEO of Disco.xyz. We start and end this episode with Evin framing identity as the coolest, most interesting thing people should be working on. She paints such a compelling picture in language that’s so accessible, and she shares tips on how the rest of us can level up our messaging to attract more user…

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Making A Mark In Medical Affairs - Rachel Couchenour : 13 39:29

1y ago39:29

39:29

“I've found that it's usually not the ‘what’ or the ‘how’ that will get me where I need to go with a Senior leader. It's the why. They want to understand the why behind it.” Rachel Couchenour, VP, Global Medical Affairs, Travere Therapeutics. Working cross-functionally. Some would call it a skill. Others would say it’s a talent. For our guest on Ep…

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Paul Ashley: Will Consumers Pay for an Identity Product? 51:11

1y ago51:11

51:11

Today’s guest is Paul Ashley, CTO and co-CEO of Anonyome Labs. Paul starts by talking about how the erosion of privacy online and the rise of data brokers and surveillance capitalism led them to create their IDtech product MySudo. MySudo is a privacy application that allows users to create secure digital profiles, or personas, with unique disposabl…

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Innovate Faster With A Digital-Led Biotech Strategy - Bonus Episode 30:36

1y ago30:36

30:36

“The good news and the bad news are the same news.” Rik Reppe, VP Digital, Acquis Consulting Group We are excited to announce a new service, Digital-Led Biotech Strategy, in partnership with Acquis Cortico-X. Through this service, our clients will get access to medical, business, and digital experts to maximize theraputic value through a digital-le…

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Sebastian Mellen: The Power of Verified Data in Non-Obvious Industries 44:15

1y ago44:15

44:15

Today’s guest is Sebastian Mellen, Co-founder and CEO of Cerebrum. His team is building an IDtech product called vID, tackling data and compliance problems in healthcare, HR systems, and even youth sports teams. In this conversation, we cut right to some meaty topics, including some of the biggest challenges that IDtech products tend to face. Sebas…

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Chris Ingrao: Bringing Decentralized Identity to Healthcare 1:02:04

1y ago1:02:04

1:02:04

Today’s guest is Chris Ingrao, a co-founder of Lumedic—a company whose mission it was to transform the patient experience in the US healthcare market. Lumedic launched an IDtech product in production and was on the brink of several incredible adoption breakthroughs, but through internal reorganization, its potential unfortunately was not realized. …

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What Does Authentic Leadership Look Like In Action? - Doug Locke : 12 19:40

1y ago19:40

19:40

“The best leaders that I've seen are the ones that realize that it’s always “go, go, go,” and they need to move fast. But they still consciously take time to think, to pause a little bit and have a more of a multi-dimensional view of what's happening, as opposed to always being at a fast pace, moving forward and getting things done.” Ramin Farhood,…

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Katrie Lowe: Stop Selling SSI, Sell Answers to Problems 35:56

1y ago35:56

35:56

Today’s guest is Katrie Lowe, Co-founder and CEO of Domi Labs. We start the conversation talking about how Berlin’s hyper-competitive rental market led Katrie to build a digital rental passport to streamline the experience for property managers and tenants to exchange information in a rental process. We go on to talk about Domi’s product experience…

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Jeffrey Schwartz: Build More, Talk Less — Solving Real Problems with Verifiable Credentials 42:13

1y ago42:13

42:13

Today’s guest is Jeffrey Schwartz, Founder & CEO of Dentity whose mission is to make the internet a safer place for people everywhere. Jeffrey’s background in the automotive industry (of all places) opened his eyes to the need for better digital identity. He co-founded Dentity to solve the trust problem in peer-to-peer transactions and discusses th…

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Introducing: The Future of Identity 7:48

1y ago7:48

7:48

Welcome to The Future of Identity. Normally, show host Riley Hughes (Co-founder & CEO of Trinsic) talks to the people building IDtech products, but the purpose of this solo episode is to introduce the purpose of the podcast. In this short episode, Riley covers: The future of identity and why it is better How great products will get us there Why now…

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Leading & Succeeding: What It Takes To Build A Biotech - Ilan Ganot : 11 46:25

1y ago46:25

46:25

“I don't know any other leader that's had that type of prior steps in their careers. It almost feels like you need pieces of all those things to actually be a leader, you know, soldier, lawyer, investment banker. I'm sure they all came in handy.” Doug Locke, SSI CEO. Some biotechs are created from research and academia. Others are born from firstha…

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What is the future of digital medicine? - Jen Seda : 10 24:12

1+ y ago24:12

24:12

“Digital impacts our lives all the time in every way, including in medicine.” Jen Seda, M.D. The day of digital medicine is here. And while software and digital apps can be created rapidly, historically, the healthcare ecosystem has implemented change at a much slower pace. This contrasting combination, or tension as today’s episode describes it, p…

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Shaping the future of early diagnosis with digital medicine - Dr. Sharief Taraman : 9 44:53

1+ y ago44:53

44:53

As everyday consumers, we interact with AI (Artificial Intelligence) daily. Whether unlocking the home screen of our phones via facial recognition, using voice commands to send a text, or interacting with a chat tool when shopping online, AI adoption is continuous. But what is the role of AI in today’s healthcare? And how will AI impact medicine an…

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The Intersection of Data Science and Life Sciences : 8 25:39

1+ y ago25:39

25:39

Digital biomarkers have opened up a series of questions worth contemplating as both newer and more mature biotechs evaluate the following: Are we measuring things correctly? What's inefficient about our clinical development process? What should we be thinking about to innovate for the future? And how do we democratize access to clinical trials and …

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Using digital biomarkers for faster, cheaper clinical trials - Chris Benko : 7 41:59

1+ y ago41:59

41:59

Biomarkers themselves have been a part of medical research for decades. However, digital biomarkers have become increasingly important to the modern clinical development process. While the term “digital biomarker” is prevalent in discussions around investment, clinical trials, and measuring patient outcomes, a variety of questions surrounding digit…

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Team Agility De-Risks Scientific Innovation : 6 28:59

1+ y ago28:59

28:59

What does it take to launch a new class of medicine? When launching a new therapeutic, many unknowns exist, but some principles remain constant. By looking to past experiences and staying lean, emerging biotechs can derisk their organizations while hitting milestones by taking an agile team-building approach. Today’s guest is Adriana Valenciano, Se…

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