The app builder who is killing robo calls

Ethan Garr, RoboKiller, Mobile Apps

Today’s guest had an experience like many people and thought, “Man, these automated phone calls are frustrating!”

They had to be stopped. So he entered a competition to come up with a solution. He won that competition. He built it into a product but then he did something that I cannot understand.

We’ll talk about what he did in this interview.

Ethan Garr is the co-inventor of the RoboKiller app which stops robocalls forever for all landline and mobile phones.

Ethan Garr

RoboKiller

Ethan Garr is the co-inventor of the RoboKiller app which stops robocalls forever for all landline and mobile phones.

Andrew: Hey there, freedom fighters. My name is Andrew Warner. I’m the founder of Mixergy where I interview entrepreneurs about how they built their businesses. And joining me is a guy who was working for a company whose product and business I admire and had a side thing going. He said the same thing you and I have been saying for a while, which is, “These freaking phone calls are frustrating. The ones that call us up with nothing but spam, they have got to be stopped.”

And so he entered a competition that the government put on. He did well in it. He created this product. And then he did something that’s mind-boggling to me. And frankly, the people at Mixergy team we were text-messaging each other about this last night. He rolled it back in to the business he was working for, to the company where he had his job. Why would he do that? Why would he do that instead of running with this idea, especially considering how successful it is?

All...

Continue reading the transcript...