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| Adult FriendFinder sale: "Sweet if it were true" [Andrew Conru] |
| Published: November 17, 2007, 3:33 pm |
| Tags: Adult Friendfinder, Andrew Conru, Deals, Penthouse, Various Inc |
| Conru, the porn baron of Palo Alto, is denying rumors that he has sold either his company, Various Inc., or its best-known property, Adult FriendFinder. "We haven't sold anything," he said. "It would be sweet if it were true." Conru has never raised outside money for his site and still owns 90 percent of Various. That means that any sale is |
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| Did Andrew Conru sell Adult FriendFinder for $100 million? [Rumormonger] |
| Published: November 17, 2007, 11:59 am |
| Tags: Adult Friendfinder, Andrew Conru, Deals, Rumormonger, Top, Various Inc |
| but we doubt it. What Conru has said in the past is that he wants to take Various public. The Adult FriendFinder site, however, has been a sticking point for investment bankers, who don't want to try to sell porn to the investing public. For Conru's ambitions, divesting Adult FriendFinder would make perfect sense, since the rest of Various |
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| Adult FriendFinder sale to Penthouse now just "sweet" [Acquisitions] |
| Published: December 11, 2007, 8:19 am |
| Tags: Acquisitions, Adult Friendfinder, Andrew Conru, Penthouse, Porn, Various Inc |
| true," demurred porn baron Andrew Conru, when we asked if the Palo Alto porn baron had sold FriendFinder Inc., the parent company of porn-laden classifieds site Adult FriendFinder. Sweet indeed, then. Multiple sources have told us Various was sold on Friday, and one confirms that Penthouse is the buyer. A tipster says that there's an all-hands |
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| Penthouse buys Adult FriendFinder [Acquisitions] |
| Published: December 12, 2007, 1:29 pm |
| Tags: Acquisitions, Adult Friendfinder, Andrew Conru, Confirmed, Danni Ashe, Danni Com, Marc Bell, Penthouse, Top, Various Inc |
| Andrew Conru: Danni Ashe is now your coworker. As the porn-magazine business quietly biodegrades in the ashbin of history, the founder of Adult FriendFinder has sold his company, Various Inc., to Penthouse for $500 million. This despite his earlier denials. The price actually seems low, considering Various's projected revenues |
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| AdultFriendFinder looking for multiple partners? [Rumormonger] |
| Published: December 19, 2007, 6:20 pm |
| Tags: Adult Friendfinder, Andrew Conru, Penthouse, Porn, Rumormonger, Various Inc |
| before Penthouse acquired Andrew Conru's Adult FriendFinder for $500 million, a rumor spread that FriendFinder was making offers itself to buy smaller porn sites. Sources told Adult Entertainment Today AFF made offers on two sites that might not have large profits but "have attracted media attention and large numbers of regular visitors." Will |
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| Adult FriendFinder looking for multiple partners? [Rumormonger] |
| Published: December 19, 2007, 6:20 pm |
| Tags: Adult Friendfinder, Andrew Conru, Penthouse, Porn, Rumormonger, Various Inc |
| before Penthouse acquired Andrew Conru's Adult FriendFinder for $500 million, a rumor spread that FriendFinder was making offers itself to buy smaller porn sites. Sources told Adult Entertainment Today AFF made offers on two sites that might not have large profits but "have attracted media attention and large numbers of regular visitors." Will |
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