How A Spare Computer Became Twitpic, A $1.5+ Million A Year Twitter Success Story – with Noah Everett
In 2008, Noah Everett wanted to share photos on Twitter. Since there was no way to do it, he grabbed an old server and created Twitpic as a side project. This interview will show you how he did it, but before you listen to it, here are some numbers:
- In terms of traffic, Alexa says Twitpic is a top 100 site
- In 2009, the site did over $1.5 million in ad sales
- For every million in sales, the company keeps $700,000
- The site has about 6.5 million registered users
- Noah was recently offered 8 figures for the business
- There are only 4 people working on the site (including Noah’s parents)
- Get specific techniques that you can use to build a successful (and profitable) online company — based on Noah’s experiences.
- Learn how you can react if when your company is in trouble. Listen to what Noah did when the world seemed to turn on him. Compare his response to what the average person might do.
- One of the most open and inspiring interviews on Mixergy.
Update: interesting discussion about this (including input from Noah) on Hacker News
