Twitpic Is Getting Hammered By Twitter, But Doubles Revenue To About $3 MM – with Noah Everett

Noah Everett, Twitpic, Bootstrapping, Scaling, Social Media

What happens when a developer builds a successful company on Twitter…and then gets blindsided by Twitter?

Noah Everett built Twitpic into the most popular way to share photos on Twitter. My last interview with him made headlines all over the tech world when he revealed that his company generated over $1.5 MM per year and that he was offered much higher than $10 mil for his company.

Since then, Twitter built photo sharing into its product by partnering with Noah’s competitor.

Noah’s response? He grew revenue and launched other products, including a Twitter alternative called “Heello, which is relaunching soon.”

Noah Everett

Twitpic

Noah Everett built Twitpic, which allows users to share their photos and videos as they happen.

 

Andrew: Coming up, have you ever worried that a giant competitor is going to separate you from your users? Well, it happened to today’s guest. Wait until you see how he grew his business after it did and what you might be able to do to grow your business. Also, when you hear my first set of questions around revenue with today’s guest, if you feel like “Did Andrew didn’t push you enough?”, I want you to watch the very end because I think that last set of questions is going to put a smile on your face. Finally, what’s Heello and should you lock your name on that site before someone else does? All that and so much more coming up.

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