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    Hey Amanda, thanks for reaching out! Taking a quick peek

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    Looks like it's because Debounce was set up to run and return only "safe-to-send" emails. The waterfall gives you the option to add a validation provider to check results from each email finder and to toggle that option on/off. When the validation tool determines the email is invalid, the next email finder tries to find a new one, but if it finds the same email as the previous column it won't try to validate it again because it already tried to validate once before, and this could result in no final output because none were valid.We automatically hide validation columns helping keep tables clean and that's why it's not evident at first glance. Let me know if you still have any questions though!

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    Also, safe-to-send will skip catch-all emails which a lot of companies tend to use, so the amount of valid emails could be very low overall. Let me know if you'd still like those potentially risky emails and can help you make the proper changes

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    I get that and I only want safe to send, but it seems weird that on my inital search of 66, I was able to get 8 from the inital LinkedIn search, but out of 114 with additional contacts I have 0.

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    Yeah, that makes sense. I have seen similar cases too, so maybe it's very likely, and that first batch of companies was lucky to include a few.