The Dark Story Behind Pornhub’s $1.5B Business Empire
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Episode 548: Shaan Puri ( / shaanvp ) and Sam Parr ( / 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.
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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?!?
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Never thought I'd see this day coming. I love it! Shaan is such a master story teller
“If you can’t sell boobies, you can’t sell anything.” - Shaan Puri
Put this on a shirt gentlemen 😂
Hahahaha
😊
Going to do some hands on research after the pod.
I've been a listener to MFM for over 2 years and this is by and far THE most enthralling episode I've heard. Masterful storytelling by Shaan, exceptional 'therapy' message from Sam at the end, and overall vibe was great. Kudos gentlemen, well done.
I love these kind of episodes. Shaan's storytelling is next level
I have listened to almost all episodes of the pod. This is at least top 5, so entertaining Sean's hype was awesome. Love these types of secret stories
Shaan's hoodie was up with the theme😂. Was fun listening to such amazing storytelling.
Sam! really appreciate that monologue you went on - could feel your spirit backing it up!
Didn't expect 2 days in a row
Great deep dive, came from your short 👍🏼
The ring analogy sticks
Love the end part about finding the right projects. I’m going through the same questions for my current startup of 3 years and this was super relatable.
That was a superb episode, really well researched and really well told! Very, very interesting - hats off!
You guys are at your best just deep diving. I love your perspective.
how are you able to do this day after day, sometines due to commitments i am not able to view the pod. So i listen to it in parts. Hats off to you.
This episode was very unexpectedly interesting and funny. Loved it!
This episode is the single of Shaan’s story telling. Absolutely loved it!!!! Takes notes (on the story telling of course 😂)
Awesome therapy session Sam!!!!
This should be a series!
Incredible storytelling Shaan. Absolutely hooked and laughing my ass off
Thank you for these insights
What an episode! 👏
my fav episode of all time!
Great story told by a great story teller!
This was a banger!
Fire episode 🔥🔥🔥
By far the best episode 🎉
Great episode. ❤
Awesome journalism
Hot Money Season 1 is a great podcast that goes into the nitty gritty of this story.
Got a link ?
Bravo Shaan!!!!
That Manchester United manager after a loss analogy is gold! 😂 😂 😂
26:04 had me dying laughing. when you google his name theres only one pic and its exactly what i would expect
Yep! This was a good one.
wow, now that's story telling! Enthralling!
thats a dope hoodie
This one was a real banger xD
At 37:16, Sam (in response to a GREAT perspective shared by Shaan) puts it all in perspective. Well done, gentkemen. Standing ivation
this is actually better than the audio version
I’m convinced a successful pod for Shaan is measured by how many times Sam giggles uncontrollably😂
I felt Shaan’s “please” at 37:16. That was real in the feels.
I like to play a drinking game when I listen to the show. Its one shot for every time Sam says Alright
Great story
Damn Shaun, I was so hooked on your story, now I need you to write and produce the PornHub Curse Netflix series.
the oh yeah from sam when shaan mentioned brazzers was hilarious
Great pod guys! What other way do X sites monetize apart from shitty banner ads?
Another great episode! I had a VERY early Snap guy come shopping with me once. Without saying his name, he was either employee..... 1, 2, 3, 4, or 5. To talk to him was as if the guy walked on water. It was back when Facebook offered them 3 billion, complete insult from his attitude. I wanted to remind him YOU INVENTED AN APP WHERE A PICTURE DISAPPEARS!!! You would think they discovered immortality or nuclear fission. So obnoxious.
This is a great episode. One question though , how do you search for internee companies with revenue of 3-10m. Is this something you will be willing to talk about on the pod? Or just tweet a likely system ?
Shaan is the best story teller ever ..he could tell you a story about drying paper an it would sound interesting
Need a dedicated episode of Sam the Shrink
Where is the bryan johnson interview shaan mentioned awhile ago? Still not out.
there is one
I think he’s talking about the one where Shaan went to his house
Agree with Sam, amazingly told Shaan
To help answer Sam's question at 28:45, I once met a guy who was doing SEO for Carpe Diem, a company that operates porn websites. Basically, his comment was "you get to laugh the first 2 months, then you get to cry the next 2 years when you see the horrors that people search, and then you quit".
This one might beat the one, Guy Makes $1.3M Every Day pod, but as you say, ya’ll be covering this sort of thing more than most. I wouldn’t want to have that label, and don’t get me wrong, I totally get the business story value. I totally listened start to finish.
Get to Larry Janeski’s story, and have him on for an interview if possible. Mike Rowe would be great too, with all the practical success stories he could share for so many who could benefit.
The lessons of the 8 to 10 or 11 figure stories applied to the cogs of the economy could be great to mix in as a theme semi-monthly or as a short series once a year.
Those who relate with and come for those pods will learn from the rest.
Shaan has got to be one of the world's best storytellers.
Bernd is a common name of older people in Germany and Austria, spelled burned
Loved your episode
Just stumbled upon Nat Friedman gem "Pessimists sound smart. Optimists make money." Sounds familiar ?
Now, who really coined this first? Nat or Shaan ?
My money's on some Ancient Greek philosopher or French guy.
Either way, they’re probably kicking themselves in the afterlife, realizing the optimists funded their fancy mansions while they were left to ghostwrite history’s footnotes.
I loved this story time! My first biz was a network of porn blogs that funneled traffic back to my tube site. I had a community of 10k followers that I didn’t know how to monetize and the tube site getting 50k visits a day. During the porn hub roll up they bought my tube site for $3k 🤦🏻♂️then I eventually sold the blog network and community off and thought I was an 18yr old genius 😂 I still kick myself for selling it all off but in 09 no one really knew communities would become what they are today.
The way Sam said “Oh yeah” at 7:30 you can tell he’s watched more than a few Brazzers videos in his lifetime
Dude, your YT pics are hilarious. Are they increasing views or not really?
Shaan: "Brazzers" Sam: "Oh yeah" hahahaha
needs to be movie
Canadian Heritage Moment.
Hats off to a fella that can do hundred million dollar deals
Great episode and what a Story about PornHub. For sure one industry that will never desappear 🙂
Keep it up with all these great Stories.
Episode felt way too short 😩
Can you give us the name of the "Traction" book?
A Frank Amodeo episode would be 🔥
Green VFX close 😂😂😂
So this is what Shaan meant by getting more into content. :)
I’m on there and think it’s fine though it’s has it’s bad sides like technical difficulties
can someone help me?
on one episode Sam mentioned he invested in a company that pivoted and now uses AI to summarize multiple research papers. Does anyone know which episode that was and the company name?
consensus
Shaan: Imagine running a NOT popular porn sight?
Hilarity ensues.
I love you, guys.
does anyone know what page do they use to check the most trafic websites?
www.semrush.com/blog/most-visited-websites/
😂😂😂😂 Shaan bringing everyone out of reality distortion. Like how Sam thinks and the fact that trading places w any of these is just so miserable!
can y'all bring back under-the-radar businesses/ owner stories - kinda miss those
MySpace was better than Facebook ever was😅
Great explanation from Sam at the end that many business ideas have a right to exist as long as you have fun with it and you can tell Shaan a story. That's what I learnt from this pod. Choose your businesses based on the potential story, not the potential earnings. Even if you fail, at least you have a great story that makes you more interesting.
He wasn’t rich when he bought those sites. He raised a lot of money and used seller financing. He found a PE guy who backed him.
Google pays duck duck to be its main search engine or Firefox or both
Field trip?
Howwww the fkkk did you do this research
I never thought i would be listening to story of porn today, lool
I think these guys aren’t cheaters
South Africa's has the same exchange rate arbitrage that Shepherd enjoys in the Philippines and a has please open up your recruitment to south Africa, It really wouldn't be hard
Guys, can you do a business ideas episode? Like if you agree.
Shaan is a storytelling savant! Chapelle is the only one who is better!
I use DDG
Show NOTES are WEAK for this POD guys get ur self together , who is doing ur show notes (SAD) where are the links!!!!
PH's saving men from the far worse family court empire ftw
Shaan is so thirsty for adult content businesses. Niiiiice.
If you charged every illegal immigrant coming into America through a gap in the wall bordering Mexico and the US you could make $1.5m a year. I don't understand why it is being allowed to happen.
35:40 -
"Don't optimise something that shouldn't exist"
- Elon Musk
Shaan knows a lot about the history and progression of porn lmao
Interesting topic. Unzips pants.
#LAKESHOW
Don’t use DDG
haha great story
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That story was fappinating
Nice story but hurts my eyes watching it. Please remove that white frame or make it darker
Pal world please react to that