Neil Freiman
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The fact that OnlyFans took a 20% cut of the revenues, content creators took 80%.
You hear stories about how a few OnlyFans creators are making millions and millions and millions of dollars over the course of the year.
One thing we do know about Leo is that he was sort of
predestined to lead an adult online company just from the very beginning.
Back when he was 17, he started his first internet business called Cybertania, which was a website referral business.
His mom actually sent the incorporation papers for him in 1999 while he was still a teenager.
Then he operated websites called Ultimate Passwords, which claimed to offer hacked passwords to pornography sites.
And then this sort of snowballed into when he started something called
A website called MyFreeCams in 2004, which blended casual online chats with sexually explicit live content.
So he was always on the journey to lead a company like OnlyFans.
Well, you don't see this type of deal that often or at all.
Yesterday, the Trump administration announced it would pay French energy giant Total Energies almost $1 billion to not build wind farms off the East Coast and instead invest in fossil fuel projects in the U.S.,
The Department of Interior will reimburse $928 billion to Total, the amount it paid for two offshore wind leases, which it will then use to produce oil and gas.
The New York Times called it an extraordinary transfer of taxpayer dollars to a foreign company for the purposes of boosting the production of fossil fuels.
Explaining the deal at an energy conference,
Interior Secretary Doug Borgum called wind power ineffective and predicted a new era of affordable, reliable, and secure energy.
The CEO of Total, for his part, said it was a pragmatic business decision considering that offshore wind had gotten too expensive in the U.S.
given the Trump administration's resistance.
Finally, in case you missed it, the UK version of Saturday Night Live made its debut this weekend and people didn't hate it.
Reviews were mixed but mostly positive in that most thought it was going to be a huge flop and it was actually pretty funny at times.