How a developer became a profitable founder (with no business experience) – with Jay Gibb
In today’s interview, we’re going to hear about a developer who says he knew nothing about business and still created a profitable, successful business.
I’m so excited to have him on here because I’ve known him now for several years. His name is Jay Gibb. He is the founder of CloudSponge. What’s CloudSponge?
Well, have you ever gone to a website where you needed to invite friends?
Maybe it was a greeting card site or maybe you were on Kiva and you wanted to get your family members to join in on a campaign.
Well, if you’ve ever notice that some of them just have a little button that allows you to grab your address book or Gmail contacts there’s a good chance that feature is created and managed by CloudSponge.
I invited Jay here to talk about how Jay built created this business.
Jay Gibb is the founder of CloudSponge which integrates with the most popular webmail services.
Andrew: Hey there, yo there! Hey, freedom fighters. My name is Andrew Warner. I’m the founder of Mixergy.com, home of the ambitious upstart. Whew. I’ve been wondering if saying the ambitious upstart actually resonates anymore with the audience or does it just sound like something I say, but I’m noticing that there are so many people in my audience who just feel out of place in the world because they don’t want to just be happy with where they are.
They’re not happy with whatever revenue they’re getting or…we’re going to meet an entrepreneur today whose revenue was good but it was flat and he wasn’t excited about it and so he fought for more. When I say ambitious upstart, that’s what we are. We’re people who start with nothing and we just keep fighting for more and more and more. We’re never satisfied looking back and saying, “Look at how far I’ve come. I’m going to be okay right...
Continue reading the transcript...