OnlyFans CEO Fires Middle Managers, Forces Them to Find Real Jobs
KEY POINTS
- •Keily Blair, OnlyFans CEO since 2023, said the company has 42 full-time staff and opts out of middle management.
- •She spoke in Lisbon during the 2025 Web Summit and highlighted OnlyFans makes $7 billion annually with this lean team.
- •The company employs senior and junior talent focused on aptitude and attitude, foregoing traditional managerial career tracks.
At the November 2025 Web Summit in Lisbon, OnlyFans CEO Keily Blair revealed her company runs 100% middle-manager-free—because 'nobody’s ever had a really good middle manager' in her experience. With a lean crew of 42 full-time employees, OnlyFans effortlessly hauled in $7 billion annually, proving you don’t need a forest of useless bosses to rake cash. Blair's hiring mantra? Extreme senior talent plus 'hungry juniors' with more attitude than experience. Forget climbing managerial ladders; every employee is a solo act. Founded in 2016, OnlyFans boasts 400 million users and 4 million creators, surfing Big Tech’s 'great flattening' wave alongside Microsoft and Google, but with fewer frills and no middlemen chronic existential crises.
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OnlyFans proves you can make billions with 42 employees if you just kill middle management, because dreams and delusions are cheaper than managers.
Why waste money on middle managers fiddling their phones when you can have 42 overworked geniuses doing all the work and silently dying inside?
OnlyFans got the memo: middle managers are like dial-up internet, outdated and unbearably slow—so they unplugged the whole thing.
Source: Businessinsider | Published: 12/8/2025 | Author: Aditi Bharade
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