Meet the entrepreneur who got the GIF keyboard on your iPhone

David McIntosh, Tenor, Bootstrapping, Scaling, Sell Your Business

One of the things that today’s guests noticed was how people were communicating visually with the introduction of the iPhone. I’m talking about GIFs.

Well, today’s guest said, “This is a new way for people to express themselves.” And he created a company whose goal is to enable us to use gifs to express ourselves on the platforms that we love. His name is David McIntosh and the company he created was Tenor.

He eventually sold the GIF search engine and database to Google. I invited him here to talk about how we did it.

David McIntosh

Tenor

David McIntosh is the CEO and founder of Tenor which is an online GIF search engine and database which was sold to Google.

Andrew Warner 0:04
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. Joining me is an entrepreneur who did listen to my interviews. And so he gets the goal here, which is to help people who are listening, get some ideas, get some inspiration, get some tactics that are stuck in their heads and are available to them when they’re ready to use them to build their businesses. One of the things that today’s guests noticed that took me a while to really be aware of was that we, when we’re communicating with friends we are using, I’m gonna call him gifs for now but GIF is perfectly acceptable to we’re using these animated images as a way of expressing how we feel like if somebody does something positive, we might send a crowd cheering if somebody is, um, I don’t have any great examples of this, but I see them all the time when I when I...

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