The Dark Story Behind Pornhub’s $1.5B Business Empire

ℹ️ EPISODE INFO

Released

February 7, 2024

Duration

43m

Channel

My First Million

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📝 EPISODE DESCRIPTION

Use Sam's secret growth sauce: generate more traffic with HubSpot's Free Landing Page Builder 🔥 https://clickhubspot.com/xnl Episode 548: Shaan Puri (https://twitter.com/ShaanVP) and Sam Parr (https://twitter.com/theSamParr) tell you the greek tragedy behind the Pornhub empire. If you like stories about nerds taking over, arson, secret billionaires and….foosball tables, you’re going to like this episode. — Show Notes: (0:00) Intro (2:00) Who's the new king of porn? (17:00) Bill Ackman vs Pornhub (25:00) Pornhub's $77M exit (30:30)The reality distortion of entertainment businesses (36:30) Sam shrinks Shaan (39:00) DuckDuckGo in the top 10?!? — Check Out Shaan's Stuff:

• Try Shepherd Out - https://www.supportshepherd.com/
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• Small Boy Newsletter - https://smallboy.co/
• Daily Newsletter - https://www.shaanpuri.com/

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• Hampton - https://www.joinhampton.com/
• Ideation Bootcamp - https://www.ideationbootcamp.co/
• Copy That - https://copythat.com
• Hampton Wealth Survey - https://joinhampton.com/wealth

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🎤 SPEAKERS

• Shaan Puri

  host

  Co-host of My First Million and entrepreneur/investor who often leads long-form business storytelling segments.

• Sam Parr

  host

  Co-host of My First Million and founder of Hampton (joinhampton.com).

🧾 EPISODE SUMMARY

In this episode of My First Million, featuring Shaan Puri and Sam Parr, The Dark Story Behind Pornhub’s $1.5B Business Empire explores pornhub's Game of Thrones Ownership Saga and Lessons on Obsessive Optimization Shaan Puri says Pornhub came out of the YouTube-era shift from paid DVD studios like Vivid to free tube sites, and that three Canadian friends won by building the platform and the content producer Brazzers together.

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