One of those things where one day he'll look back and laugh because despite making a mistake like this, he's still rich and most of you laughing at him are and will still be broke.

FWIW, she IS hot in the pics that are out there, and it's not like she was super notable amongst the crowd here.

Everybody makes fun or everybody. Look at Bill Gates, he is the richest of anyone here. No need for anyone to get offended.

Ouch... sounds like this girl has been around a lot and like she is still promoting her current site.

i'd hit it :thumbsup

no doubt steve stubbed his toe here but he's set for life, he found the stars when it mattered, when they could make millions.

there are no superstar solo models anymore, just isn't possible today.

i don't believe there's one revshare teen solo model site today averaging 30 joins a day - anybody who says otherwise give me access to your stats and I'll pay you $1000 if you are.

fuck yeah

id smash it in the shithole

make that into a gfy contest thread :2 cents:

you beat me to it.

Is this a fact, like you have seen his bank account, or are you just assuming because he has made a lot of money in the past.

I'd venture guess a lot of the people who made millions in the late 90s early 2000 are not doing nearly as well as a lot of people here think. Especially if these same people invested money back into other projects online or offline such as real estate.

You would have to have more than a few million in the bank to live off the interest and maintain some of the life styles that some of the ballers here had.

I know what sales he was making in his heyday and I know he doesn't live ostentatiously. I'm also sure that he's still making a few hundred grand a year off new sales/rebills so he doesn't have to tap into his savings to support his current lifestyle.

so it sounds like lightspeed is making about 10% of what it use to. You think if that is the case Steve would be more inclined to make changes instead of keep on doing the same thing over and over and over.

Will, I like you, but you obviously don't know much about me. I was ready to retire before I started Lightspeed. This isn't my first successful career. I started Lightspeed FOR FUN, it's never been about the money for me. I'm sorry if I haven't lived up to YOUR expectations, but that was never my goal.

I could have made a lot more money over the last 11 years. But I chose not to cheat my affiliates, my employees, my models, or my members. I turned down $100k/week to install spyware. I never shaved, I never spammed, I never did hidden prechecked xsales, and I never stole content. Fuck yes, I could have made more money!

I've supported ASACP, FSC, the fight against Acacia, and now the war on piracy. I sponsored dozens of conventions just for the fun of it. I donated to many people here who needed help. But that doesn't matter now, because I'm not running my websites the way YOU think they should be run!

Lightspeed's peak year was in 2005. We were rolling in money. Millions. But I was miserable that year. I turned 40. I almost lost my family. I had a terrible drug addiction. And I was chasing away my closest friends. So I put the brakes on Lightspeed, and started working to fix my personal life. Since then, I've cleaned up, saved my marriage, and spent several wonderful years at home with my children. All worth more to me that money or fame ever will.

So now, I am a "dinosaur" and I'm "out of touch", and I must be only making a fraction of my prior years. No, I'M HAPPY. I hope someday you'll all do something that makes you happy too.

Steve Lightspeed

Steve, don't be so sensitive. I was replying to Mutts comment that if Lightspeed is only making a couple hundred thousand a year in rebills now then it must have been on a big decline from where it was.

You don't have to live up to anyone's expectations but your own. I applaud you for not cheating affiliates, shaving, using spy ware etc.

If you are just doing this as a hobby and you don't care and don't need the money because you are retired a couple times over than fine. But it just didn't seem like that from your posts here looking for the next superstar and your comments about having several new sites to roll out. It seems like you do care and you want to make your business a success again in the future. The replies here made by me and many others where about your reluctance to make changes when needed to keep your sites going as a success in the future. If you don't need the money and prefer to keep doing things the same way and making less then pardon me and ignore my comments.

While I am sure this thread has bothered you from the people taking pop shots at you, that wasn't the case from my posts. I was trying to help.

Seriously, if you care about lightspeed and want to turn it around consult with someone else to get help. But if you don't care about future success or making more money then more power to you, keep doing what you doing.

Someone left me Negative Rep for my POSITIVE comment on this thread, saying, "I disapprove"

Bunch of shit at work, eh, what?

Of course, because of my post count I can't see who the PRICK was but it is there anyway.

(RED) "This is the next... 10-27-2010 10:56 PM "I disapprove."

This is my post that got me NEGATIVE REP FROM SOME ASSHOLE!

WTF?

What a DICK!

I can't believe it's not butter.

you pissed all your money away on drugs and hookers and ran your company itno the ground than begged your wife not to divorce you? and now you are clueless? did I miss anything?

The teen niche isn't what it once was. Teen shit just doesn't sell like it was in the late 1990's into 2000. Back then I would put up a 150 x 150 banner of Tawnee Stone at the top of my tgps and make 50 sales a day.

Solo girl sites and "superstars" are still going on. Just not in the niche that you enjoy (teen). There are still girls making fortunes. But for the last 7 years MILF has ruled where teen once did.

If Steve has been chilling since 2005 then no wonder he's out of touch with the market. The last couple of years have been ridiculous everywhere I look. It even creeped into some recession resistant stuff I do offline.

As for modern day superstars, it is oh so very possible to make it so but not with the way it was done a half decade ago. It takes some real crazy thinking and a 180 from what most people want to do with a new site.

neg repped you too for this post :thumbsup

um........that's why I carefully wrote 'teen solo model' sites

solo amateur sites with swinging,cuckholds, interracial,hardcore is a whole other world

the term 'solo girl site' became associated with teens and it's stuck.

maaan, You are my last sponsor who still don't change the payment info! few mails sent, no reply, no action.

Mutt, can you email me please? I would email you but don't know how to contact you. Thanks: rob @ robspics DOT com

Just so you know, you are my favorite dinosaur. :thumbsup

Ohh yeah.. 2005... The year of the solo model!

I was hanging with peeps at the NATS gig and was telling them about solo model contacts and how you are basically the only one with solo model contracts bent towards her being able to actually earn a living and live above the poverty line.

After explaining to them the difference between how Teen Revenue does business in regards to the models and how you do it, they basically decided it was time to rekindle their relationship with lightspeed cash.

Now if you could just do some tour redesigns?

pretty, pretty please?

What drugs were you in to?

Understood. But I never thought of solo girl sites as being associated with teens. Always thought of teens as teens and solo girl sites as sites that featured one girl as the "star" of the show.

But since my beginnings were as a categorized TGP guy that would probably explain our differing views of what "solo girl site" means.

To me Lisa Sparxxx, Celeste Fox, Raven Riley, Jordan Capri, etc. are all solo girl sites. But that's just my particular viewpoint.

Which takes me back to what you were saying...I agree, the teen niche isn't hot at the moment. But you never know. 5 years from now it might be King again.

classic thread.

:glugglug

Just read your wallstreet journal article, it said you started lightspeed to make extra money for your kids college fund.

http://online.wsj.com/public/article..._20070413.html

hawt chick. should do well.

Yeah, seems she's doing well with everyone but Steve.

Did you even read the part that you quoted in that article?...It said he owned a consulting firm, it's his SECOND career, and he was trying to make a LITTLE EXTRA money for the kids for college.

.....waiting for this girls site to open at LSC, c'mon Steve!!!

Janet Carlton, she needs some royal feel to her name, actually looks british too.

yeap and i was responding to steve saying " I started Lightspeed FOR FUN, it's never been about the money for me. " The article also said "By 2000, the site was generating enough income that Mr. Jones was able to shut down his consulting business."

So apparently it was about the money.

Is he sueing people for fun or is that perhaps for the money as well.


Everything is about the money. :2 cents:

You hit the nail on the head with that
shes very cute!!! Good luck to you

:1orglaugh:1orglaugh:1orglaugh:1orglaugh:1orglaugh

I hope that was sarcasm :error