Allen knew something had clicked - a storytelling community was born. Launched in , Wattpad now has more than 80 million readers, and four million active writers on the site each month. From the start, Allen and Ivan, 42, had big aspirations, but Wattpad's story isn't one of overnight success.
Hong Kong-born Allen moved to Canada in the late s aged He studied electrical engineering, and was hired by Microsoft, a job that wasn't the right fit for the young university graduate with an itch for entrepreneurship. He left to work at a Canadian software start-up, which he witnessed "rocket ship" from about employees to more than in about three years, before it was snapped up by an American firm.
For Allen, it was an instructional experience about the possibilities of success. Ivan, also an engineer, was an early hire at Allen's first start-up, a mobile gaming company based in Toronto.
Ivan later moved to Vancouver, but the pair kept in touch. One day Ivan sent Allen a message, wanting to show him a project he was tinkering with, a website where users could share original writing. Allen, who has both a love of both reading and electronic gadgets, was already working on something similar, a way for people to read on the then popular Motorola Razr mobile phone.
The name they picked is a twist on the term e-book, with "watt" for electricity combined with "pad" where people can jot down ideas. Allen recalls thinking: "If YouTube can generate 40 million users from zero in a year, perhaps we could generate a few million. But in the end, it was only about 1, Clearly, it wasn't working. They had launched the platform with thousands of public domain books, classics like Pride and Prejudice, as content to draw in readers.
It wasn't the draw they hoped. In a word, early results were "depressing". But the stars aligned for Wattpad with Apple's release of the iPhone, and the subsequent launch of its app store in Mobile text went from just about readable to user friendly almost overnight. It was two years from Wattpad's launch that a user finally posted an original work to the site - a Victorian-era vampire novel called Blind Truths.
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