Keily Blair, the CEO of OnlyFans since July 2023, says that if there is one thing she cannot abide, it’s “that squidgy layer of middle management” that large companies frequently develop. She actively refuses to hire middle managers, she said on stage at the MEO arena at Web Summit in Lisbon on Thursday.

Of course, Blair has the luxury of having only 42 employees, so living without project managers and office administrators is easier than it was at her previous employers, which include the law firm Orrick and the accounting giant PwC.

“We do not have that squidgy layer of middle management in the middle, because nobody’s ever had a really good middle manager in my experience,” Blair said. “And so, for us, we were like, actually, let’s get rid of that model. Let’s keep things very lea

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