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…You have the example of Kara Swisher and Walt at Recode who have done this. But still, even so they got acquired by Voxx. Exactly. And they make their money in part through their conference business. The better example might be The Information which is Jessica Lessin’s which charges. I mean, so they are a subscription media model like we were talking about. They charge several hundred dollars per year for their information. I don’t know exactly how successful they've been at getting people to pay for their information but it’s not sort of the slam dunk. Obviously, Bloomberg has enough else going for it that, like if you’re listening to this, boss, I’m not leaving. What you can’t have as an independent though and this is like the ultimate tech trend for me is they don’t have the redhead. They don’t have the customer relationship and proprietary data channel to your customer, you know, the financial traders or whoever the equivalent is in whatever industry. If you control that, you can……

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