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information doesn't want to be free

that's why you have to pay me

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Sean Monahan
Oct 29, 2020
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When I founded K-HOLE with a group of friends ten years ago, trend reports were simultaneously expensive, yet silly. Social media hadn’t exploded marketing and journalism. And there was still a sense that there were secrets in the world.

As a result, I took seriously the dictum INFORMATION WANTS TO BE FREE and set out to release reports for free, accordi…

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