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He’s worked with a variety of global clients, including Adidas, Samsung, Ernst and Young, Save the Children, Sony, IKEA, KPMG, Nokia, and the list goes on. Their publishing company, they’ve been basically selling libraries of books to universities for decades, they’ve started to sell videos as well.
He's worked with a variety of global clients, including Adidas, Samsung, Ernst and Young, Save the Children, Sony, IKEA, KPMG, Nokia, and the list goes on. Their publishing company, they've been basically selling libraries of books to universities for decades, they've started to sell videos as well. It's a US company, actually.
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He’s worked with a variety of global clients, including Adidas, Samsung, Ernst and Young, Save the Children, Sony, IKEA, KPMG, Nokia, and the list goes on. Their publishing company, they’ve been basically selling libraries of books to universities for decades, they’ve started to sell videos as well.
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