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The consent economy

Every time you unlock your phone, somebody makes money. It just isn't you.

Forty to sixty hours a week. That is what the average person spends on a smartphone, which works out to somewhere between a third and half of your waking life. Big tech built trillion dollar fortunes on that time. You signed up for exactly none of it.

Dan Novaes wants to change the math.

He is the co-founder and CEO of Mode.Inc, the company behind Mode Mobile, the EarnPhone, and EarnOS. He has raised over $110 million, all of it from retail investors, not a single traditional venture round in the mix. He has 65,000…

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