Ambush Inteview #77 WEG Cory

51 Metro-sexual Cory's~

1. Just how many webmasters have bought you a hooker? Does your girlfriend know about all the hookers you do?


I am not and never have been big into escorts. However, I will not lie and say that it has never happened, as it has happened on a few occasions in my life (I am age 30 now).

One incident did occur whereas a webmaster sent an escort to my room. All I will say regarding that situation is that it was totally unexpected and that the person who did it has some very good taste : )

And after that, nothing in this industry shocks me anymore.

I am now in love to be honest. My past is my past, I had a lot of fun, but the current state of my life as well as the future is much different now, and much better. We are monogamous and she really is the best thing that has ever happened to me. I have the best romance I could ever ask for now : )

You have some sources! I have never been asked about that : )




2. Does sharing a room with Poppy have it's advantages/disadvantages? What's your relationship with him?


Well, the advantage is that he is one of my very good friends who certainly looked after me during my transition to the ?PPS industry,? so I am very comfortable sharing a room and accessories with him. We have the same taste in clothing, so the closet is more than beautiful, it is work of art, just ask KK. Haha

Poppy is also a very dedicated worker, the guy honestly works constantly from the room. I unplugged his connection so that we could leave for a party in Phoenix (sorry to whatever Jupiter Hosting client was online). haha

Disadvantages? Well, Poppy is an extremely energetic guy that elevates all those around him, however wonderful that may be, getting a nap is almost impossible.

I have a host of great memories with the guy, next weekend, him, Eric and a few others are getting together for some snowboarding in Lake Tahoe, I am looking forward to being around some of my favorite people and making even more memories!

i have been waiting for this one

Pleade the 5th Cory.

3. Talk about your background with adult check.

Back in 1999, I took the spill into the world of Ecommerce. Honestly, I knew nothing about the Internet. The company was venture capitalist funded and provided internet users with up-to-date traffic information. My job was managing the team that called up the DMV centers and asked for information regarding road construction. The team had one person on it: me. I called around 40 state centers everyday and asked them if they were doing construction. In almost all cases, they would get upset at me. So in turn, I would make it up. No kidding, the entire site was based on me making up fake traffic jams. Users logged on to avoid construction sites that were merely a figment of my imagination. And didn't do this via my own accord, I was asked to make it up everytime the center yelled at me.

After about 6 months, the site began to decline and the venture capitalist began to pull out of the deal. I guess they thought creative construction zoning was not very effective. This was consistent with what we all know as the ?ecomm crash? that effected many of you. As the VC?s began to become critical of the business, I made up more construction sites, I wanted to save the day. But it was to no avail : )

Since I was the guy updating the site, I knew I would be the last to go, however certain death was obvious. So I began going through the papers looking for other jobs. I was terrified, I had been a waiter for years and I my strength was dissecting early 20th century literature and working in comedy: not necessarily trademarks of someone on the brink of success in the New Internet World that had manifested itself right before our eyes in a matter of a couple of years.

So I made up my resume and began sending it out to jobs looking for ecomm / project type people. I felt that most of the jobs I would not be qualified for, but I hoped I could get through an interview citing my ability to present a level of ambition that would intice the company to hire me.

Within a week, I received a call from a company in the San Fernando Valley. They were seeking HTML editors that could monitor their sites for basic errors and respond to the webmasters and ask them to fix the site. They set the interview for 2 days out from the call. On the phone, the guy asked me to be prepared to answer questions regarding HTML and Javascript.

Everything was great, however, a few pretty serious problems stood out:

1) I didn?t know what HTML or Javascript meant.
2) I wasn?t sure what the term ?webmaster? meant.


Anyone who knows me well will tell you that I will try anything. It is a part of my character, a part that I feel has taken me places I never would have seen otherwise. With this in mind, I arranged a plan.

I went to the Borders books in West Hollywood for the next two nights and copied all the basic code out of the shelved books and into a notebook. Those books were much too expensive for me to afford, so I had to make due. I booted up my old Compaq laptop and began to work the 250MB of Ram to a challenging extent. I would type the code, right click, save as .html and see what would happen. I stayed up all night each night trying to figure it out.

One note I would like to make here is that I was doing this for a job that paid a starting hourly rate of $10 an hour. I am always baffled at this industry as it seems that opportunist are few and far between.

Before I went into the interview, I wrote down code on my arms to serve me in the event of emergencies.

On that Febuary 2000 morning, I had no idea I was walking into one of the largest Adult paysites online too date. I was not briefed prior, I was only told that they needed a ?project oriented HTML/Javascript support person.?

I was immediately greeted with a cute secretary who asked that I hand over a copy of my resume and have a seat. I was immediately seated next to a cute, darling girl that must have been around age 24. She had her hair slung over her right ear lobe and was nervously focused on her cover letter and an impressive business bag was folded out presenting a series of pens, papers, notebooks and organizational tabs.

I was intimidated as well as hopeful we could both get hired and I would sleep with her at the Christmas party. That thought alone likely separated me from her, and lead directly to the next event.

Within 5 minutes of being called in for the interview, her ?how to win friends and get a job now? smile had faded to a grimace; her walk out the front door had transitioned from upstanding and confident to beleaguered with dissatisfaction.

?My god!? I thought, ?what had happened in that interview room and what does this mean for the Christmas party??

Within two minutes of her exit from my ambitious stage of preplanning for the holidays, I was asked to come back. I was led through what appeared to be a renovated garage, mostly concrete, which was conducive to echoing voices and footsteps alike. A quiet, passive asian guy led me around a corner.

?This is the work area.? He said passively.

Well, the first thing I noticed was dogs walking about everywhere. There were big dogs, little dogs and medium sized dogs roaming between cubicles, slurping from water bowls and wagging their tails in anticipation of peeing on me (I am only guessing on the latter portion of course). Adult Check was very dog friendly, something I always appreciated.

The second thing I noticed was this large, burly bohemian of a man hosting a bag of cheetos on his cubicle table and a big picture of a man sticking his penis inside of a woman?s ass. I am not into anal, so to be honest, this was my first time to experience anal; and that experience came at the helm of a burly man and a bag of cheetos inside a garage in the San Fernando Valley.

Moving on, I was led into an office. The passive asian guy asked me a few very simple questions, I answered them satisfactorily. He then explained things in detail:

?Basically, you look at porn site, email webmaster if picture does not work.?

And I was hired.

The job was just as simple as he explained and I became a lot more experienced in anal as the weeks progressed. In fact, I was the new guy and got to mill through all the gay sex links.

But I wanted more. Not anal, but more from the job, probably less anal would do. So I began making friends with all the webmasters and asking for advice. I began working late hours. I was driven to make myself more than what I was. I had no desire at all to stay where I was.

The path was promising, and gained hope several months later when I was asked to go to a show. Back in the day, Adult Check played host to enormous booths and cash machines. They would bring at least 10 employees just to help with setup alone. I went, people seemed to like me, and my role at Adult Check increased. I would later be promoted and began working along side AVN Edison and Netbabe. I took more of a business role, working underneath of Brad Estes (now with Video Secrets). I learned a lot from him and from the company, without that opportunity, I would imagine I would have ended up somewhere else and not in adult. I traveled the world and eventually headed up the Business Development department.

Working for such a large company put on display what a lot of heart and ingenuity can do for you. The transition to what many refer to as ?the other side? or ?PPS? side was tough, AVS systems ran primarily on revshare. However, it always amazes me that people think that only the PPS models are successful. I am sure that guys like Cyberage Dave are doing more signups than many affiliate programs.

Some interesting questions.


This should be a great interview

I certainly hope we do that again. Such an impromtu night, yet so perfect.

This should be a good one.


Cory, you lucked out - no questions about the After-Hooters hotel room debacle last PHX Forum ;)

I love you back.

In the straight way of course.

This is the "CORY-est" he could get. LMAO

hahahahaha good ol' days bro.

That is Funny. Wrong but Funny.

That's a really nice way of saying Poppy is a spaz and if you leave your toothbrush out there's no telling where it is going be used ..

Oh this is going to be rich.

4. What happened when you crashed at Lightspeed's house? Why did his dog bite you?

One off my very good friends in the Industry, Vanilla Deville, was having her birthday party in Phoenix. CCBill hooked us up with a bus and vip at a strip club and Steve of course allowed people to come to house for an afterhours. Both CCBill and Lightspeed should both be commended for how generous they are.

The night started off at Vanilla and Stewie?s home where we were picked up by the CCBill bus and taken to Christies Strip Club. Vanilla is a draw, she has a lot of friends, and this adored girl?s birthday party was filled to the brim. I was having a great time, roaming around talking to everyone, however there came a point where I knew I needed to take things to the next level. So I ordered 2 vodka/ tonics, 3 strippers and a table with a view.

By ?view? I mean I could see other strippers.

The strippers piled into the round table and the vodka began to flow. If there is anything in this world that strippers love, it is vodka, cocaine, ecstacy, large bills, all expense paid vacations, and VIP sections.

1 out of 6 is not too damn bad.

There was only one problem in my Tommy Lee world however, the CCBill bus was leaving; this was a problem, I have a history in Phoenix and it does not include finding places. Actually, it does include a rap sheet. (more on that later).

Vanilla walked up to my table, I am pretty sure she was not impressed with the fact that it overlooked stage 2 as she did not look happy. I was holding up the bus.

Vanilla immediately regulated all the strippers and made me leave. In fact if I recall, it went something like this:

?It?s either Vanilla or these strippers, now.?

That choice was pretty simple, I found myself boarding the bus within 30 seconds and $200 later.

The bus was heading to the Lightspeed house, the meca in terms of hospitality.

Steve and Shannon are two of the really great people in the industry for having everyone over. The place was all set up and the drinking continued.

At some point unbeknownst to me, I wandered towards the bathroom. At this point, I met the Lightspeed dog.

It did not take long until I realized that the dog had a bit of an attitude. I reached down to pet the little fellow, but he ran away and I am pretty sure he called me some type of a name. And even if he didn?t, I am pretty sure he was thinking something nasty about me.

So I followed him down the hall and into a bedroom, Easton was directly on my trail. I was very unaware of my positioning in the home when I reached down to pet the dog; At this point, I turned to Easton who asked me a very logical question:

?Dude, why are you in Steve?s shower with the Lightspeed dog??

This question made sense on a lot of levels and was very shocking at the same time.

It was then that the dog bit me and ran. He ran like the wind. He ran like an evil runs from good (biblical sense of course).

But this night would prove to only be beginning. In typical Phoenix fashion, I left the party to walk down to get a pack of smokes.

Prior to this, Steve and Shannon had both told me I could sleep at the house. They made up the guest bed just for me.

And then I was totally lost in some neighborhood. I could not find a pack of smokes or the Lightspeed mansion.

I ended up getting a town car to drive me around, I ended up in some motel. The next morning, I called Sheri and Easton for a ride. I still have no idea where I slept that night.

I get nervous anytime I go into Arizona. Nothing close to that happens anywhere else.

Congratulations!

Cory is a pillar in our community and among my distinguished list of favorite industry people. I must say that he has struck my Romantic chord with the statement from the first question above when he speaks about his wife. You are a handsome and Romantic man.

Your friend,

Mr. Romance

I'm looking forward to learning more about you Cory.

I appreciate the wit and humor ... in the story telling ... this will be a fun read over the next couple of days.

Yay!! This is shaping up to be a great interview Cory's one of those people that you just can't help but like - and respect.

where is my interview! lol

Sadly, I might have been there for a few of these. Great choice for an interview.

5. How many people from the industry have you had sex with?

I have been in the industry for a good while and was single up until pretty recently. I had a lot of fun. I have never been a namedropper and have always been very private in my relations.

I don?t know the number, but I have had some great romantic encounters with a few girls out there

6. Have you and JFK always gotton along?


I am reserving this question for later as it ties in with a different question: at least I assume so; I have a good guess at why it is asked.

Let's keep it that way
WG

nice... cant wait to hear the details

hmm, I'm sad not to see one question about Chopper....

FINALLY have time to pop in here. Cory is one of my best friends in the industry and I am glad to see him get this opportunity.

Really looking forward to getting to know more about him. Truly one of the best in the biz at what he does.

I am going to work that in

7. Ever been accused of rape by a content girl? Discuss

Haha, well I know who asked this one!

This is an inside joke among some of us guys. To be honest, it is funny, but if I tried to explain it, it might seem a bit inappropriate. I don?t know how it got started, but a few guys I know used to say it to me when I was talking to girls (where as she could not hear).

Sometimes people just like to give me a hard time and see my reaction. Rather extreme way of going about it, but I am no angel in terms of kidding around.

It has no legs, but someone is getting a foot in the ass soon.

I like Cory. Great interview!

Awesome interview... thanks Cory and Sleazy

I have got to say that Cory is one of my favourite people in this industry.

We first met at the Phoenix Forum...and both of us were pretty wasted....I believe he was still with Adult Check....what a fight, um, I mean, debate we had...

I do not remember it at all....but, I've had a soft spot for this very intelligent man ever since.

Well deserved kudos for being a great guy and innovative and an awesome marketer!

i raped cory

Definitely looking forward to Tahoe! I hope we can get to the mountain. I hear they are getting dumped on atm.

Mountain?!? Ass to Mouth?!? Ewww, forget the yellow snow, don't eat any brown snow!!!

ADG Webmaster

See you in a few days for snowboarding!!

very nice so far corey

who's the girl in the middle?

Now that I think about it.....Cory was a pistol that night.....I'm still laughing....Can't wait to hear his side of the story!

I am bringing a sled for us.

A girl I dated.