Tim Stokely

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Timothy Stokely
BornJuly 1983 (age 41)
Harlow, United Kingdom
Education Anglia Ruskin University
OccupationBusinessman
Known forFounder of OnlyFans and CEO until 2021

Timothy Christopher Stokely (born July 1983) is a British businessman, pornographer and the founder and former CEO of the internet site OnlyFans. He officially stepped down in December 2021.

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Early life

Tim Stokely was born in Harlow, [1] Essex, [2] in July 1983, the youngest of four children of Guy Stokely, a retired ex-Barclays investment banker. He has a degree from Anglia Ruskin University. [3]

Career

Stokely's first businesses were the adult performance websites GlamWorship and Customs4U, and a site to connect customers to tradespeople. [4] He founded OnlyFans in 2016 alongside his older brother, Thomas Stokely, and with the help of a £10,000 loan from his father, Guy, [5] who told him, "Tim, this is going to be the last one". [4] His brother is the company's chief operating officer and his father is head of finance. [4] [6] He sought to avoid the mistakes of his earlier sites by building in a referral system that gave third parties an incentive to recruit new content creators to the site. [1]

Stokely cites the investor Warren Buffett and his book Warren Buffett on Business as one of his influences. [1]

Stokely sold a 75 percent stake in OnlyFans' parent company Fenix International to Leonid Radvinsky in 2018. [4] [7] On 23 December 2021, Tim Stokely stepped down as CEO of OnlyFans, and was succeeded by Indian-American businesswoman Amrapali Gan. [8] Keily Blair replaced Gan in July 2023. [9]

Stokely lives in a "gated mansion with a cinema and sauna" in Bishop's Stortford, Hertfordshire. [10] He subscribes to two OnlyFans content creators, James Haskell and Chris Robshaw, which reflects his interest in rugby. [1]

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