Bernd Bergmair was the secret financial backer behind MindGeek's $77M buyout
Shaan Puri · The Dark Story Behind Pornhub’s $1.5B Business Empire · Feb 7, 2024 · at 25:34
Shaan Puri and Sam Parr discuss the covert ownership history of MindGeek, the parent company of Pornhub.
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“They said that actually the employees bought it out for seventy seven million, like the two executives bought it out. But that didn't smell quite right. Where did these, where do these employees get seventy seven million dollars to buy this, right? Like how much were these employees making? And it turns out that there was actually somebody who was the money behind it that didn't want their name associated with it. And it was this guy. I don't even know how you say his name. It's like the word Bernard, but it's missing some letters. It's just burned Bergamere. And he's an Austrian businessman, which is just already sounds fucking like sick. And he's so now he owns the majority of this.”
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