PATTAYA, Thailand – The Adult Site Broker Talk podcast has released part two of the show’s interview with Solomon Friedman of Ethical Capital Partners, the parent company of Pornhub operator Aylo.
“In part two, Solomon and I talked about his transition from being an ordained Rabbi to an attorney and now being one of the owners of an adult company,” explained Bruce the adult site broker, host of the show and CEO of Adult Site Broker.
Asked what his job entails and what a “typical week” looks like, Friedman told Bruce “there’s no typical week.”
“I don’t have typical weeks,” Friedman said. “I always say I’ve got indoor responsibilities and outdoor responsibilities. My indoor responsibilities are ensuring that Aylo has the support and the investment that they need to develop a best in class trust and safety system. What we do is not cheap, Bruce. To put it in scale, let me give you some numbers. Aylo is a company that employs about 1,500 worldwide. A full 20% of that workforce works exclusively on trust and safety. If you took those numbers and laid them over a Google or a Meta or X, it would be unimaginable that proportion of the workforce. So, that is expensive. And from the owner side, we’re committed to investing in that for a number of reasons. First of all, we don’t see it as a cost. We see it as an opportunity. That being a leader in trust and safety is something that we can develop with our own experience. And then we think, by the way, in the future (we’ll) serve the rest of not only the adult internet but the mainstream industry with what we have invested and what we’ve learned.”
That covers Friedman’s ‘indoor’ responsibilities. As for his ‘outdoor’ responsibilities, Friedman said his chief role is “to speak loudly and proudly to anyone who wants to listen about the work that we’re doing.”
“One of the things that I do, and I’ve done more times than I can count, is I will walk any journalist who wants to see it through the uploader verification process, the content verification and moderation process from the back end,” Friedman said. “I actually invite journalists, come play moderator. I want you to sit in the moderator chair and see the back end of the platform. Can you imagine, for example, Meta taking journalists on a tour of their trust and safety system? It’s like, first of all, you have to find the random call center in Kenya where they’ve outsourced all of this. Just for the record, we do not outsource a single aspect of our moderation program. Not one. All of our moderators are full-time employees of Aylo, trained and maintained by Aylo, tested by the way. It takes about 90 days before you’re ever able to moderate live content.”
You can listen to part two of Adult Site Broker Talk’s conversation with Solomon Friedman of Ethical Capital Partners now, on AdultSiteBrokerTalk.com.
