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Freepik serves more than 500 million people every month without trading on a single stock exchange — a scale that rivals publicly-listed creative platforms while staying almost entirely off Wall Street's radar. This conversation examines how Joaquin Cuenca turned a bootstrapped image library into an AI content company, navigated the intellectual property crisis that damaged his competitors, and now manages the expectations of a private equity owner with a defined exit horizon. The timing matters: the AI content market is sorting winners from casualties in real time.
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