09-16-2012, 11:00 PM
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Too old to care
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Join Date: Jun 2001
Location: On the sofa, watching TV or doing my jigsaws.
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The Porn Empire - A German excite the world
Fabian Thylmann has risen in a short time the most powerful entrepreneurs in the Internet Porn: His company Manwin revolutionized the business with the digital sex - with questionable methods. By Florian Flade and Lars-Marten nail
The most powerful group in the global porn business resides in Luxembourg, in a simple office building of glass and concrete. "Manwin" stands at the mailbox and sign at the entrance to the fourth floor. The company's name is virtually unknown outside the industry.
Of the sites Youporn, Pornhub or My Dirty Hobby but almost everyone has heard. Or they looked. There you see every day at 55 million porn film. In the digital world Manwin is a sex empire with 1.3 billion clicks a day.
Out of the office on the fourth floor Manwin employees can have large windows on the Boulevard Royal and forty feet deep gorge of Pétrusse valley overlook. But apparently no one enjoys the view. Behind the glass door, the reception is orphaned, some cardboard boxes standing around, cables hanging from the wall, at the desks still sticking price tags. The head, a 34 year old German, is not to be found. "Always nobody there," said a Chinese woman who works at a bank on the ground floor.
More than 100 million euros per year
The empty head office is not the only mysterious to Manwin. Mysterious is the boss. The Porn King likes to wear hooded sweatshirt and jeans, even at business meetings. His name is Fabian Thylmann. Photos on the Internet have a slightly overweight man with bubenhaftem face and glasses. He looks like a student in an advanced semester. He should be shy, lives in Belgium. But he comes from Aachen.
On paper, Fabian Thylmann is the sole master of the digital sex empire Manwin. According to documents of the Luxembourg Trade Register, he is CEO and sole shareholder of the holding company, which is to conduct of this office in Luxembourg of a network of subsidiaries.
There are large offices in Montreal and Hamburg. Smaller offices in Los Angeles, London, Cyprus. At many locations around 1000 people are employed, and the trend: rising fast. Industry analysts estimate the turnover of Manwin group of more than 100 million euros a year.
The programmer to sex tycoon
The story of Fabian Thylmann is that of an astonishing rise. At first glance, it has something of the rags-to-riches cliché: A small computer programmer from the Rhine Province, it brings in just five years, the most powerful sex tycoon of the Western world. Much in Thylmanns CV Stars recalls other entrepreneurs in the digital age. On Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, the Google founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin, or even an Apple icon Steve Jobs.
They have all used the Internet for developing a unique business idea - and deserves so billion. In public, they love to play the nice boy next door in jeans and T-shirt. As business people, they are however all the tricks - determined and assertive. Thylmann could fit into the series of these visionaries . Only in one respect he is different. The others with Facebook, Google, or Apple technology satisfies needs of the people, of whom nobody knew in advance that it would give them time.
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