Evan Britton - Founder of Famous Birthdays

The Casey Adams Show

Listener.com Podcast Network

Business, Entrepreneurship

4.8 • 637 Ratings

🗓️ 19 December 2022

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Evan Britton is the founder of Famous Birthdays, the world's largest database of celebrities, musicians, and public figures. In this podcast, Evan will share the inspiring story of how he built Famous Birthdays from the ground up, as well as his insights and experiences as an entrepreneur in the digital media industry. Learn more about Famous Birthdays: https://www.famousbirthdays.com/ Follow Evan Britton on Twitter: https://twitter.com/Evan_Britton - Subscribe to The Casey Adams Show on Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-casey-adams-show/id1328795944 Follow me on social media: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/casey Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/CaseyAdams TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@caseyadams Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome back to the Casey Adams show. Today we are joined by Evan Britton, the founder of
0:06.9	famous birthdays. Thank you so much for coming on the show, Evan. Thanks for having me.
0:11.5	Absolutely. You know, I've been a user of famous birthdays for quite some time and being in the
0:16.6	creator space for the last six years professionally and even prior to that. Famous birthdays has been
0:21.6	such a powerful source of information of knowledge for so many creators, including myself.
0:28.1	And I want to ask you, where did this journey begin for famous birthdays? How did the idea
0:32.8	originate? And where did this journey start?
0:36.1	2012, mobile was the next frontier in the internet.
0:41.1	Zuckerberg famously told his team to work on mobile devices,
0:44.9	actually work in the office just to get his team used to the mobile experience.
0:51.3	And, you know, I thought mobile was going to be the huge next frontier.
0:57.1	In hindsight, it's obvious.
0:59.2	But, you know, I don't think it was so obvious that it was going to be as big at the time.
1:04.6	And I remember looking up Wikipedia and IMDB on my phone, especially Wikipedia.
1:09.6	And I was like, that's just too much information.
1:12.0	You know, if I looked up Beyonce or Tom Hanks or an NBA athlete,
1:15.6	it's just too much info for mobile.
1:18.3	So the initial vision was to synthesize information on mobile,
1:25.2	kind of like a cliff notes for Wikipedia concise.
1:29.0	That was division.
1:30.5	You know, famous, there's a reason in our logo why famous is more bold than birthdays.
1:35.4	Birthdays is kind of a fun theme.
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