# Drill Down Insider Ep. #22: Freepik CEO Joaquin Cuenca

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Podcast: [The Drill Down](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-drill-down-3488983)
Published: 2026-03-13T19:12:00+00:00
Episode link: https://chrt.fm/track/A5CGBD/traffic.megaphone.fm/CSN9372186919.mp3
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## Resource

Freepik serves more than 500 million people every month without trading on a single stock exchange — a scale that rivals publicly-listed creative platforms while staying almost entirely off Wall Street's radar. This conversation examines how Joaquin Cuenca turned a bootstrapped image library into an AI content company, navigated the intellectual property crisis that damaged his competitors, and now manages the expectations of a private equity owner with a defined exit horizon. The timing matters: the AI content market is sorting winners from casualties in real time. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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