Mentor Night Series: How John Ellis successfully created “a Pinterest for dudes”

John Ellis, Tapiture, eCommerce, Social Media

So imagine this. You watch Pinterest take off, but its considered a site for women.

So you have an idea to create a similar site for men. Would it work?

Today’s guest did just that and it IS working.

John Ellis is the CEO of Tapiture, a social curation and ecommerce site that helps people discover, share and buy the best of everything online.

This interview is part of our Mentorship Night Series.

John Ellis

Tapiture

John Ellis is the CEO of Tapiture, a social curation and e-commerce site that helps people discover, share and buy the best of everything online.

Andrew: Hey there, freedom fighters. My name is Andrew Warner. I’m the founder of Mixergy.com, home of the ambitious upstart.

Imagine this. Pinterest takes off, but it’s considered a site for women. So you have the idea to create something similar, similar site for men. Would it work? Well, today’s guest is proving that yes, it is working and partially it’s because they expanded beyond where they started. I invited him here to talk about how he built up his business.

John Ellis is the CEO of Tapiture, a social curation and ecommerce site that helps people discover, share and buy the best of everything online. We’re going to talk about how he built up the business.

It’s all sponsored by Toptal. Toptal is a network of developers. If you need to hire someone, you just go to Toptal.com and you can hire a developer. But I’ve got to tell you, I had the founder of Toptal over to my house last night. I made tacos and we had...

Continue reading the transcript...