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You are in the wrong place

You aren't going to find what you came for

You might as well go home

You aren't going to get rich here

Because the revolution will not be monetized

The revolution will not have a multi-billion dollar addressable market

The revolution will not follow a freemium business model

The revolution will not come free to play

The revolution will not enroll in YCombinator

The revolution will not keep deposits at Silicon Valley bank

Because the revolution will not be monetized

The revolution will not do an 83(b) election

The revolution will not enroll in Zenefits

The revolution will not have Mark Cuban as an advisor

The revolution will not take seed investment from SV angel and 500 startups

The revolution will not issue preferred stock

Because the revolution will not be monetized

The revolution will not have board meetings

The revolution will not be recommended by the App Store

The revolution will not come preconfigured on your iPhone

The revolution will not be featured on TechCrunch and SMBC

The revolution will not offer stock options

Because the revolution will not be monetized

The revolution will not appear in keyword auctions

The revolution will not hire a CSO, CMO, and VP of finance

The revolution will not ship with a toolbar

The revolution will not have a Salesforce account

The revolution will not feature pre-roll ads

Because the revolution will not be monetized

The revolution will not have a one hundred dollar CPM

The revolution will not give you mining rewards

The revolution will not have A, B, and C rounds

The revolution will not have a fifty billion dollar valuation

The revolution will not be sponsored by Sequoia, Kleiner, Perkins, and NEA

Because the revolution will not be monetized

The revolution will not be thirty percent off if you pay for a year in advance

The revolution will not cost fifty follars with a contract extension

The revolution will not be fifty percent off from Groupon

The revolution will not get a 409A valuation

The revolution will not ship free with Amazon Prime

Because the revolution will not be monetized

The revolution will not have a profit and loss statement

The revolution will not be the subject of a Harvard Business Review case study

The revolution will not have executive offsites

The revolution will not hire management consultants to write an annual plan

The revolution will not have IAB Ad Units

Because the revolution will not be monetized

The revolution will not be analyzed by Mary Meeker and Jim Collins

The revolution will not do a mezzanine round

The revolution will not be underwritten by Goldman Sachs

The revolution will not do any mergers and acquisitions

The revolution will not have a trillion dollar market cap

Because the revolution will not be monetized

THE REVOLUTION WILL NOT BE MONETIZED

WILL NOT BE MONETIZED

THE REVOLUTION WILL NOT MAKE YOU RICH

BECAUSE THE REVOLUTION WILL BE FREE!!!

Bram Cohen is the creator of Bittorrent and co-founder of the Chia Network, a green cryptocurrency.

Transcription on github by Frederic Jacobs. Gil Scott-Heron performing The Revolution Will Not Be Televised here.