50!!!

3. I hear you're a lazy bum who never keeps his word? discuss

I try to always keep my word. If you can't keep your word then how can people depend on you? I'm really cautious about making promises that would be difficult to keep because in the end it just makes the other party upset.

Conversely I'm pretty intolerant of people not keeping their word with me. Nothing frustrates me more than depending on someone to pull through and then having to scramble when you find out that someone didn't make good on a promise. :mad:

your interviews are all cool

50 Sahgeeez!

edit: oh bloody hell.

'Gee' like in Geese.

I don't mind Ziggy at all. Lots of people call me that. I have a lot of friends that tend to pick their favorite nick name for me and stick with it.

BTW I miss you at the shows Tala.

Okay, so it's Sah-gi. :)

I miss going to shows, hon. :( I'm porbably not making another show anytime soon. Too much going on.

The icq is always on, sweetie, feel free to chat anytime. :)

PLease explain in DETAILS your experience sharing a room with Juicy D Links and Odie ;-)

Good interview dude. Hope to see you again soon

the only myth i've really ever heard is that jews are smarter, shredwer and better businesspeople than non jews on the whole.

thanks for letting me know that's incorrect. :thumbsup

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

Sagi, I loved sharing a locker w/ you in Curacao. Let's make sure to do that in Curacao next year...LOL

Slut, I thought you loved me

LOVE those teeth!!! Sagi - you have to wear that stuff for the company Halloween party!!

4. Did you walk into the marketing job or how did you get it?

No not really. I started working at at FriendFinder in 2002 as a temp. I worked in the Customer Service department. We have millions of real members calling round the clock. Our CS department is pretty sizable as you can imagine. After about 5 months I was selected to move into our Abuse Team.

We have a staff the works 24 hours a day removing abusive members profiles and those that are created by bots. FriendFinder has always been proactive about keeping the integrity of it's member database sound.

After 7 months of being a temp in both Customer Service and our Abuse Team I was offered a permanent job at FF in the Abuse Team. A few months later I was promoted to the Abuse Team Lead.

I held on to the Abuse Team Lead position for just over a year and then was strongly encouraged to make a jump to marketing. I was very hesitant about it at the time. I felt that I was in line to become a manager in the Customer Service Department and that I might be leaving the department before all my opportunities were met. FriendFinder's HR Director spoke with me and told me that "sometimes the smallest opportunities open the doors to larger ones". (In this case she was 100% right.) I took the position which was later defined as Raquel's (she was the past Sr Affiliate Manager) assistant.

That's how I got into Marketing at FF. I learned a lot from Raquel during the brief time that I worked under her. She was extremely kind to me and started referring to me as her little brother. Whenever we talk now we still joke about that. Raquel wanted to teach me everything she knew. She had a lot of confidence in me and wanted me to be the best that I could be.

I kept getting in the way of them having sex. Some how the camera gave them stage fright.

5. Discuss your sex life and what turns you on. Guys, girls, animals.

I'm a sucker for the innocent girl next door type. Or the girl with the dorky glasses that you can tell is smoking hot.

Fred also looks good in a dress. But it's hard to trust a guy fondling himself while cross dressing.

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6. Is it true Lars has a small penis and needs a porche to make up for it?

That sounds about right.









In all seriousness Lars is the last guy to buy something in order to compensate for something else. If Lars drives a Porche it's not because he wants others to take awe of it -- it's because he likes the car. He's the most down to earth millionaire I know. I sometimes wonder how he ranks next to the Olsen twins. They seem pretty laid back to me. :winkwink:

7. Just how smart is this Professor guy you work for?

Andrew has more degrees than a thermometer. He's amazingly bright. He has such impressive command over every subject matter related to his company. He knows what everyone is doing and what they should be doing. Andrew knows where his company is going and where it needs to go. He sees things that are 3 months, 6 months or even 5 years away. I've honestly never had a conversation with him that lasted more than 2 minutes where I didn't learn something new. There is so much that I have learned and will no doubt continue to learn from him.

It's humbling and enlightening at the same time to work for The Professor.

8. What's it like working for the biggest adult company on the net?

It's about time you get around to ambushing someone from AFF btw!

Working for AFF is a blast. The site does a good job of selling itself. We have an incredibility strong brand name that everyone's heard of. Many times when I talk to webmasters about promoting AFF it's not about if they will try AFF out it's about when they will.

Inside the office I work with a solid team of affiliate managers and coordinators. They are all professional about their jobs and share the same enthusiasm for helping their affiliates make money as I do. We all get along fairly well and no one takes themselves too seriously. It helps to keep things lighthearted around the office space.

Even though our company is fairly large in staff it still behaves like a startup in some ways. There aren't a lot of corporate rules in place that are set in stone. If you can make a case for changing a procedure and it's sound you'll likely see the change made.

9. Is it true women run off and get married after fucking you?

It only happened once. The good news is that it wasn't me that she married.

For those that don't know, Sleazy is referring to this girl I met in Gimli. About a month later she e-mailed me her wedding pictures from Bangkok or something. I still don't know the full story if it was planned, if she eloped, or if she just married some guy she met while on vacation.

hahahah very funny fucker

10. What's the coolest thing about going to adult webmaster conventions?

I think the best part is seeing the people that attend. There's a lot of cool people in our industry and hanging out with them in different cities is pretty fucken cool.

Also all the traveling to different parts of the World. In the past year I've been to a lot cities in different states or countries that I had never visited before. I'm always seeing something new.

Traveling a lot helps break the monotony of coming into the office on a daily basis. It gives me a chance to get away from things and clear my mind.

:1orglaugh i knew you'd like that

It's 8:20p here. I'm going to go out with some friends and answer more questions tomorrow.

:upsidedow

Great interview Sleazy. Sagi is a great guy and a good choice!!

I can't wait to read the rest of it.

Matt

Sagi has been uber cool since the first time I met him! Great answers so far, Sagi! Hope you're enjoying your evening out!

woohoo...this one is going to be agoodie!! I got one...how long did it take to get the girl outta the room that night in gimli?? lmao...shroom head lmao

11. How many conventions do you attend a year? Which ones? Favorites? Least Favorites?

I've been to plenty in the last year (Cybernet, Internext, Webmaster Accesses, Redneck Getaway, Island Gathering, Ad Techs..). My favorites are the Webmaster Access shows. They are pretty laid back since I don't have to worry about manning a booth. The best thing about them is that since they are regional I always meet new people and come away with new business for AFF.

My least favorite favorite shows that I attend are the mainstream ones. Ad Tech, SES, etc. I enjoy the shows but if I had choose between an adult show and a mainstream show I'd choose the adult show any day. The people that attend are cooler.

12. Is watching football a subsitute for your latient homosexual tendiencies?

LOL.. I love NFL football and NBA basketball. NFL football is a perfect fan sport. Teams play at most one game a week and it's all on the weekend. If you miss the games you can read the paper on Monday morning and find out about all the wins, injuries or whatever from the weekend.

I enjoy spending a Sunday sitting around doing nothing but watching football and checking up on my fantasy team. In fact when I answer some of these questions tomorrow I'll be watching football.

13. Is all beer the same?

I like most pilsners. People give me a hard time becaues I like Budwiser but fuck'em. It's a cheap beer and it's good. Best yet my roomate just started working at a Budwiser factory and he keeps bringing cases of Bud home. Our beer fridge is stacked.

When is my interview Sleazy?

14. Where do you live and why?

I live in Burlingame, California. I have a roommate who's a friend of mine from high school. At the time he was working in San Francisco and FriendFinder offices are in Palo Alto. So we were looking for something in the Peninsula that was central to both of our jobs. We ended up in Burlingame.

I'm hoping that I can save up enough to buy a place in a couple years. Housing is expensive in the Bay Area but I'm sick of landlords and supers.

sweet dude - have fun with this

Hi Sagi ,
:) whats up

Sleazy, it's the second pic I see in a short while of you doing that (last one was with Derek in Amsterdam). Anything special you want to share with us?

Thanks for the interviews, love reading them.

Hey webgurl whatcha been up to?

True, dressing up was my idea, but shaving our legs was yours.

15. What kind of degree do you have? Talk about your education experience.

I have a degree in Computer Information System from CSU Chico. Chico was an awesome school to go to. I think my time in college really transformed my life. Chico has a rep for being a party school and indeed did live up to that while I attended. My freshman year dorm life was wild and crazy. We partied and drank a lot.

One Thursday night I was coming back from an evening class and all my friends at the dorm were already drunk and hanging out. I made the mistake of playing catchup and going too far too fast. I took 7 shots of bacardi rum in 30 minutes and it fucked me up. I kept drinking Southern Comfort when the bottle of bacardi ran dry. The next memory I have is puking my guts outside the dorm. After that it's being woken up in a hospital by two nurses. I got really sick and couldn't stop dry heaving. Someone called a non-emergency ambulence out to see me. They said they woke me up and gave me all kinds of tests (asked me my name, how many fingers they were holding up, where I was, etc.) and also monitered my vital signs. Everything was fine but I was told that as they were walking out the door I started dry-heaving in my sleep. Since they had come to check me out they were liable for me and refused to leave without me since I was dry-heaving in my sleep. That's how I ended up in the hospital.

When I woke up I had no clue where I was and my eyes followed an IV bag and it's tube all the way down to my left arm. The first thing I asked was how drunk was I last night? They explained to me everything that had happened and asked me if I had a number of someone that could get me. I gave them my friend's number and they left the room to call him. I remember sitting there and looking accross at the table and noticing my shorts and thinking to myself they must have taken them off and set them there. Then I noticed my boxers underneath them on the table and got curious as to what I was wearing underneath the hospital bed sheets. I pulled up the blanket and looked down to see, much to my disappointment, that I was wearing a diaper! I instantly ripped it off and reached for my boxers and shorts.

After that pricey experience I got more cautious about my drinking. I still get drunk now and then but don't let myself get that out of control. My friends all said that I was hilarious and kept them in stitches all night from laughing so hard. For some reason people really like to see me get inebriated.

16. Did you really get paid to play video games?

I did.

I graduated from Chico State December 2000. No company was hiring entry level at the time. All the dotcoms were laying off. I couldn't even get someone at a job fair to look at my resume since I had no experience. The only job I could find was in a market that was growing was working tech support for Electronic Arts. I supported their Maxis line of games which was mostly "The Sims". It's the best selling game in video game history and is the only succesfully selling game where the majority of people who play it are female. The majority of the people calling for support help about it are bon-bon eating, Oprah watching, middle aged housewives who don't know how to use a computer. It made walking them though things difficult. I was a contract employee and after it ran out found a job at Infogrames.

I worked there for a few months as a video game tester. That's where I spent hours a day playing video games for money. The only cool thing about it was the cool people I worked with. Since we were testers by nature all the games were buggy. The hours were long because they forced 12 hour days and they wanted one 8 hour day on the weekend. In addition the pay sucked. I also had no control over what game I was assigned to test. I had to do kids games but the worst was NeverWinter Nights. I've never been into Dungons & Dragons but now I had to be concerned with +3 dragon slaying axes versus a ogre. :Oh crap

I left that job for FriendFinder the day I found out from the temp agency that I was hired.

You can find my name in the the credits for a few of the games that I got a chance to test.

another great interview

17. Do you rub the fact that you're one of the chosen people into non chosen people's faces?

I don't think I do. Maybe when I'm around VirtuMike. But that's just because he's the most in your face Jew you could ever meet. It cracks me up.

The last day of Internext last year we ordered sandwiches from the Rum Jungle before my flight out. There were about 8 of us and everyone got their food except for me. The waitress never put my order in and she kept stalling. For some reason it ended up talking longer to get my one dish than it took to make everyone elses. VirtuMike told me that I wasn't a real Jew because at one point when the waitress came around to ask everyone how the food was I didn't say anything. He says I should have said, "Oh my gosh this food is so good you have to try it."

Then when she looks down and sees no food in front of me she'll say, "What food?".

To which I if I was a "real Jew" Mike says I would have matter-of-factly exhaled, "Ahhhh-ah!".

hahah oh wow, I have to remember that one!

18. Discuss the incident with the poodle and the dildo that got you kicked out of the circus in college.

Since I don't think there will be any pictures found to prove this, I'm going to flat out deny the incident ever happened.

19. Have you ever been HAMMERED or high at a webmaster event? couch couch cancun, woops did I say that outloud..... discuss in detail

I've never been high at a webmaster event and never will be. I don't smoke pot and even if I did I wouldn't do it on my company's time.

The last day of the Webmaster Access Getaway this year I did get hammered. I was having a good time ordering shots and my bartender friend was giving me two at a time.

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I ended up blowing chunks off of RRRed's balcony. The next day the flight back kinda sucked. I had a really early flight my clock in the room was set an hour fast. I ended up sitting in the airport hung-over waiting longer than I needed because of that.

20. Why was it so hard for you to get a job after you got your degree?

I touched on this a bit earlier but I'll go into more detail. My last semester of college everyone was asking me if I had any jobs yet. Back then anyone with IT education was eagerly sought after. I didn't feel like interviewing and driving down to the Bay Area while still in my last semester. I had a few difficult classes that I was focusing on and figured the jobs would still be there after I graduated.

The timing of my graduation was aweful. Companies where laying off not hiring so it wasn't the best time to try to get an entry level job. While I was looking I worked at a Computer Networking training center doing administrative stuff in exchange for taking free networking courses. I was thinking about finding an system adminstrator job once I finished the courses and got my certifications.

I ended up getting a job doing technical support for EA and I was still working at the networking school on the weekends and evenings until they went out of business.

It sucked not being able to find a job but in the end I think things worked out well for me.

21. Where is your family from? Where are they now. discuss

My dad was born in Alexandria, Egypt. His family moved to Israel when he was only a year old. Israel as a nation was a only one or two years old. Before Egypt my father's family was living in an Italian port city called Corfu.

My mom was born in Oradia, Romania. It's located in the Transylvania region of Romania and is one town over from Dracula's castle. I've never been there but plan on going sometime. After her parents divorced my mom and grandmother moved to Israel. My grandfather moved to South San Francisco.

Later on my parents moved to the US though my grandfather right before my second birthday. They still live in South San Francisco in a house they've owned for over 20 years.

22. What cities have you lived in and why.

I was born in Naharia, Israel but grew up in South San Francisco. I've lived in Chico, California while in college. After college I've lived in San Jose, Santa Clara, and now Burlingame. Those 3 cities are all here in the Bay Area close to enough to Palo Alto where FriendFinder is located. I'd love to live in Palo Alto and cut down on my commute time but it's an expensive area to live in.

23. How did you start at Adult Friend Finder and get your current position.

I already covered my start at FriendFinder but getting my current position is also an interesting story. I was Raquel's assistant for about 3 weeks and then she went on vacation for 10 days. I was watching over her affiliates while she gone and handling the issues that came up. When she returned she decided that she wanted a change from FriendFinder and put in her resignation.

Andrew brought me into his office and started off telling me that he was going to need my help. I was expecting him to say that he wanted me to help out with the affiliates until a replacement could be found. But that's not what he was asking for. He wanted me to continue working with the affiliates. Andrew said I did a good job with them while she was on her vacation and that I should continue with it. He asked me to go to Atlanta with Jack for Webmaster Access and to find Lars and talk to him.

My mom had for some reason read my horoscope that day and called me later on to tell me that it said I would be traveling places with my job soon. That night when I emptied my pockets at home I pulled out one of those centenial celebration quarters and it was for Georgia!

Jack was running the Affilaite Team and I was working with most of the top affiliates. We started expanding the team and now have a sizable staff of affiliate managers and coordinators. After Jack's departure from FriendFinder in March I took over running the team under the Director of Marketing and Lars' guidence. I get along well with Andrew, Lars and the rest of the FriendFinder / Various upper management so it makes doing my job that much easier.