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B “I feel like
THE MV WAY
Man yVids CEO Bella Fr ench s pe ak s
ella French had
the business was just an intuition and a desire to
learned some-thing
want to do more,” says French, a former webcam
about herself while she
model who was born and raised in Montreal,
worked “undercover”
the home of MV. “There was also the fact that it
as CEO of ManyVids.
was becoming harder and harder for me to do
The more she became
business, especially with other people within the
involved with the inner
adult industry. I just
workings of the adult
felt like this is the
industry, the more she
right time.”
everything that
wanted to be of service.
Once she realized the company she co-
founded in 2014 was more of a calling than a
business venture, she knew it was only a matter
of time before she had to go public with her role
behind the scenes.
That opportunity presented itself during the
latter stages of production of #WeAreMany, a
40-minute documentary about the emergence of
ManyVids that made its world premiere on May
23. French and her team decided it was the ideal
spot to reveal herself.
“I feel like everything that happened within
An entrepreneur
who launched the
happened within
site ManyVids.com
the business was
with her boyfriend,
Sed, and his
just an intuition
childhood friend,
and a desire to
Gino, in April
2014, French had
want to do more”
managed to keep
her chief executive
role under wraps until the documentary was
unveiled. She says the reason she did not want to
make it known that she was running the company
≠ PHOTOGRAPHY: MANYVIDS ≠ STORY: DAN MILLER
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