A few months ago we invested in Toronto-based Wattpad. In introducing the investment, I wrote the following paragraph on the Union Square Ventures blog:
Wattpad is a community for telling and reading stories. Collectively, Wattpad users last quarter spent an amazing 2 billion minutes writing and reading stories on Wattpad. During that time, nearly three quarter million new stories or parts of stories were uploaded and writers received almost five million comments. To learn more about how Wattpad works you may want to watch this explanatory video.
Since then Wattpad has moved into a new office and celebrated its 5th birthday. Yes – Wattpad isn’t some kind of overnight success that came out of nowhere. Instead, Allen, Ivan and the team have facilitated the growth of the Wattpad community since 2006. They have published this infographic to show everything that has changed:
But this is just the beginning. The team at Wattpad is working on many different initiatives to enhance how stories are created, discovered, read, commented upon, shared and more! To do all of this they are looking for great engineers. If this is for you, please apply and if there is someone you know who would be perfect to work on Wattpad, please point them over there.
