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Nick the Disrupter

magazine, I got a congratulatory message from entrepreneur Nick Kokonas. I knew him a little — I had met him that seemed like a swift way to tank it: Give away our magazine ads for free. (His twist involved auctioning our digital ads to the highest bidders.)

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