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When the pandemic hit the US, Christina Stembel calculated that her flower-delivery business had eight weeks of runway, even after it furloughed all but six of her 197 employees. Everything I built in the last decade of my life could be taken away, said Stembel, who founded Farmgirl Flowers, a San Francisco Bay Area bouquet startup, in 2010. I didn t mismanage money or make a mistake. It was just out of my control.