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Originally Posted by papill0n
paul markham - is without a shadow of a doubt - the dumbest person that posts on gfy
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No he's not. Not at all. He is intelligent and has done well for himself. He just hasn't had much experience in selling porn to customers. He's a strong shooter with a pretty straight forward idea of how to market and sell.
Nothing wrong with that.
The problem I have with him is his assumption that he is somehow smarter than me or more clever than I am and can kick my ass in this business. And that just ain't the case.
A lot of what he says is true obviously. But he refuses to acknowledge that we DID achieve a "sweet spot" in terms of the Free/Paid ratio for almost 14 years and made a TON of money selling to people who otherwise couldn't buy porn (99% or more of the towns in the U.S. have NO adult bookstores...and many of them are illegal to ship to anyway)
With the explosion of piracy really taking off in large numbers in 2008 was when the decline began. That is what we have seen for the last 2 1/2 to 3 years. Before that? It was a gold mine for everyone.