The £10,000 Bet That Built OnlyFans

追加: 2026-04-30

[00:00:00]He walked into his father's house in 2016 and asked for a £10,000 loan to build a website. You see, Tim Stokeley had already failed at multiple online ventures. And his dad agreed, but warned him, "Tim, this is going to be the last one." So, he built a subscription platform where fans could pay creators directly and brought in his brother as COO and his father as head of finance.

[00:00:24]Four years later, the pandemic hit and 200,000 new users were signing up every single day. And that family business his dad almost didn't fund became Only Fans, paying out over $5 billion to creators.