42 employees | OnlyFans CEO reveals unusual approach to hiring & talent management

OnlyFans CEO Keily Blair has revealed that the company operates with just 42 full-time employees, despite serving over 400 million users globally and hosting nearly 4 million content creators.

She described the lean workforce as a deliberate strategy to eliminate middle-management roles, supporting a flat organisational structure. OnlyFans, founded in 2016, generates around $7billion in annual revenue, Business Insider reported.

Blair spoke about the approach when talking to Jeff Berman during the Web Summit technology conference in Lisbon. She said the hiring strategy brings together highly experienced specialists and ambitious junior recruits. The focus, she said, is on attitude and aptitude rather than traditional measures of experience.

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"We hire incredibly senior talent, and then we hire incredibly hungry junior talent, and we look for attitude and aptitude in hiring rather than experience. And we do not have that sort of squidgy layer of middle management in the middle, because nobody's ever had a really good middle manager in my experience", she explained.