The successful social network you haven’t heard of yet – with Richard Botto

Richard Botto, Stage 32, Social Media

My goal is to find out about the kinds of companies that you don’t see on TechCrunch…

I want to find out about the kinds of people who don’t get to the top of Hacker News because, frankly, I feel like there’s a world of successful companies out there that we’re completely ignoring.

I want to learn from them and from the entrepreneur joining me today.

Richard Botto is the founder of Stage 32, a platform dedicated to connecting and educating film, television and theater creators.

Richard Botto

Stage 32

Richard Botto is the founder of Stage 32, a platform dedicated to connecting and educating film, television and theater creators.

Andrew: Hey there, freedom fighters. My name is Andrew Warner. I’m the founder of Mixergy.com, home of the ambitious upstart and the place where I interview entrepreneurs about how they built their businesses.

Joining me today is frankly an entrepreneur who I didn’t know–I was going to say much, but that’s a lie–I didn’t know anything about until I started prepping for this interview. Frankly, a few minutes before the interview started, I started asking him all kinds of skeptical questions like, “Is this really true?” and so on. I had research that showed that he had a lot of traffic. SimilarWeb showed traffic was up, but I just didn’t know about it. I had no idea this whole thing was growing. Anyway today I’m going to find out how big he got it and also how he built it this far.

Joining me is Richard Botto. He is the founder of Stage 32. It’s the world’s only dedicated platform for...

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