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in number of downloads sold. In the three years that Pakman ran it, he grew the business by more than 850%, from $ 7M in revenues to more than $ 68M. Pakman transformed the business from an obscure also-ran with 50,000 subscribers to the second largest digital music retailer in the world, with more
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