Andrew: Hey there, freedom fighters! My name is Andrew Warner. I’m the founder of Mixergy.com, home of the ambitious upstart, the place where I interview entrepreneurs about how they build their businesses. Well, a few weeks ago, I heard about a super-fast growing social networking site, called Ello. I thought social networking sites were done! You know, Facebook locked the whole space up and owned it. But this artist in Vermont created something different. Led by a manifesto that said users should not be products whose privacy is sold to marketers, Ello got millions of people, including me, to flock to the site and ask for an invitation. I didn’t get my invitation accepted until this week; we’ll talk about that.
I invited the founder, Paul Budnitz, to talk about how he built up Ello. I’m also hoping to talk about his other projects, including Budnitz Bicycles, which makes light, fast, and elegant bikes, and Kid Robot, creator of limited edition...