Francesco Vitali will be the first to admit that when his co-founder Chris Siametis first pitched him on Rent a Cyber Friend, he didn’t quite get the idea.
“Who’s going to pay somebody to speak with somebody?” Vitali told TechCrunch. “But Chris was insistent. Chris is a millennial, and I’m Gen X, so it wasn’t easy for me to understand his vision.”
Vitali had worked with Siametis for about two decades; they ran 48FILM, an international short film festival (Vitali is also a film producer). So he took a leap of faith to trust…

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