Leonid "Leo" Radvinsky ( uk, Леонід Радвінський; born May 1982) is a Florida-based Ukrainian-American businessman, pornographer and computer programmer. He is the founder of the cam site

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(through his

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, Mfcxy, Inc.), and the majority owner of content subscription service

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Biography

Radvinsky was born in

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and his Jewish family later emigrated to

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when he was a child. In 2002, he graduated from

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with a degree in economics. Radvinsky operates a

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fund called "Leo", founded in 2009, which invests mainly in

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. Notable investments include Israel-based B4X and software creator, Pleroma. Radvinsky is also a supporter of the

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programming language. In May 2021, ''

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'' described him as a "US-based online pornography veteran who largely chooses to avoid the media." He donated $5 million to Ukraine relief in 2022 as well a cancer charity, an animal-welfare organization, and a skin-disorder-research fund.

Career

Early career

In 1999, when Radvinsky was 17 years old, he helped incorporate Cybertania Inc. During the late 1990s and early 2000s, Radvinsky developed more than ten websites such as Password Universe, Working Passes and Ultra Passwords that claimed and were advertised to provide users with "illegal" and "hacked"

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to porn sites, where he earned money for every click. Ultra Passwords reportedly earned $1.8 million a year in revenue during the 2000s. In 2004, he founded MyFreeCams, an adult streaming website. The same year,

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sued Radvinsky for allegedly sending millions of deceptive emails to

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users, but the case was eventually dismissed.

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In 2018, he bought a 75% stake in

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. After this, OnlyFans became increasingly focused on

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(NSFW) content and "gained a pop culture reputation for being a hive of pornography". In a roughly two-year period from 2021 to 2022, Radvinsky received around $500million in dividends from the website.

References

External links

Official website (#1)Official website (#2)Leo.com (venture capital fund)
{{DEFAULTSORT:Radvinsky, Leonid Living people 20th-century American Jews Ukrainian Jews Ukrainian emigrants to the United States American company founders American pornographers American venture capitalists American investors Businesspeople from Chicago 1980s births Helicopter pilots 21st-century American Jews