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 ☤ User Testimonials
 -------------------
 
-**Jannis Leidel**, former pip maintainer---
-
-:   *Pipenv is the porcelain I always wanted to build for pip. It fits
-    my brain and mostly replaces virtualenvwrapper and manual pip calls
-    for me. Use it.*
-
 **David Gang**---
 
 :   *This package manager is really awesome. For the first time I know