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Lindsay Stockall is a 38-year-old who splits her time between Newport Beach, California and Halifax, Nova Scotia. Business Insider has verified her income and employment history with documentation. The following as-told-to essay has been edited for length and clarity.

Daniel Deceuster used to go to his colleagues for all manner of things big and small. If he needed to convert a rectangular logo into a square, he'd message one of the designers. If he wanted a new dashboard built, he'd set up a meeting with the engineers.

• Emojis are cringe.
• I also love them — in text chains, where you can accomplish a lot with a single character.
• Which is why Google adding emojis to Gmail this year is a huge deal — for me. But you should start using them, too.

I love emojis.

Business Insider's Seed 100 spotlights the early-stage investors with the rare knack for finding tomorrow's tech giants before the rest of the market knows they exist.

In the AI boom, the definition of "seed stage" has changed dramatically.

Lume isn't just a modern and expensive lamp; it doubles as a laundry folding genie. And to hype and humanize this alien-like robo housemaid before it starts shipping this summer, the company behind it, has launched an all-out, high-gloss social media video blitz.