
Episode 5: The Billionaire Who Took Down Porn
Hot Money: Agent of Chaos
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On Line Pawn Can Be Highly Profitable
Pawnhub went from 13 million vidios down to four million. At its peak, mingeek made around 450 million dollars a year in revenue. It isn't a huge industry compared with the larger world of on line entertain ment. But on line pawn can be highly profitable. And those its have drawn in wall street over the years as we've discovered in this series. The amazing thing is not that porn has access to finance. It's that wall street types got into bed with companies like minegeek while averting their eyes from potential problems. When went wrong, it was left to payment companies to mob up the mess.
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