Timeline2016 launch → FY2025
OnlyFans history statistics
Ten years, one take rate, one pandemic, one founder’s death, and a company that still has 47 employees on the books.
The years that mattered
- 2016 — Fenix International Limited incorporated 1 September. Tim Stokely’s London startup.
- 2018 — Leonid Radvinsky buys control.
- FY2019 — $270M GMV. Prehistory.
- FY2020–21 — $2.2B then $4.8B. Lockdown product-market fit.
- FY2024 — $7.22B GMV, $684M PBT, 4.63M creator accounts, 377.5M fan accounts.
- FY2025 — $7.765B GMV, $714M PBT, 132M active fans, 2.5M active creators, $6.3B paid out, 5,076 lifetime millionaires.
- 23 Mar 2026 — Radvinsky dies. Chudnovsky inherits. Architect Capital’s 16% at $3.15B is the first widely reported institutional minority.
What the curve says
Hypergrowth lasted two fiscal years. Everything since is a high-margin utility with adult-industry beta. Lifetime creator payouts above $30B are the cultural statistic: a decade of 80% pass-through built a creator middle class that is still tiny, a millionaire class that is still 5,076 people, and a platform that extracts dividends like a family office.