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🗓️ 18 March 2022
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Enable knowledge creators to build and scale a live learning empire!
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0:00.0 | And I mean, are you close to getting to the point where you're doing like five or 10 million |
0:03.8 | and creator ticket sales per month? |
0:05.6 | Or like, what's the metric you're trying to hit there? |
0:07.9 | Yeah, I would say, so we have some creators that are on track to do seven figures this year. |
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0:43.1 | podcast interviews. Check it out right now at gitlatka.com. Hey folks, my guest today is Candice Factor. She's |
0:52.1 | the co-founder of Disco.C.O. |
0:54.4 | A platform for knowledge creators to build a live learning empire. |
0:57.8 | She's also a serial tech entrepreneur who's a passion for learning and community. |
1:01.2 | Before launching disco, she scaled WattPad to 80 million users, making the world's largest platform for creators to share their stories. |
1:08.3 | Wapad was sold in January, 2021 for 660 million bucks. Candice, |
1:12.6 | you ready to take us to the top? Absolutely. All right. So give us some more clues here. |
1:17.8 | What was your role with Watpad? And how did that role help you discover the need for disco? |
1:22.7 | Absolutely. So I joined Watpad. I was the first non-technical employee, and I joined to help scale the business. |
1:30.5 | So I was the head of business and the global general manager. |
1:34.6 | And, you know, it was so great to be able to work with such talented founders to bring something that was really social and engaging to something that, |
1:48.1 | you know, we always thought of as, you know, isolated, which was reading, right? Like most |
1:53.5 | people think you read alone. Well, actually, what we learned at WAPAD is it's really, |
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