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Curtis Potek's X Tube Story
Curtis potek ran one of the first big pawn tube sites, pretty much by accident. He needed a day job, so he answered and had to work on a support desk. The web side turned out to be called x tube. It was part of boom and these cool on line platforms that allowed people to upload stuff on line and watch a go viral. Once the worder mouth got up there, we went from 200 thousand users to over half a million users in about a week.
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