An Interview With Twitter Co-Founder; Don Sagolla

Jul 8, 2012 by VoorhisSapienza

Entrepreneur-Stories brings to its readers an an interview with Don Sagolla, who is the co-creator of Twitter, plus the CEO of Dollar apps, we talked about how the idea of Twitter all started as well as how it became fact. Don Sagolla who is also the author of the book 140 Characters, shared with us his life story, and how he moved from a lay off from Odeo in 2006 to becoming co-creator of Twitter. He also shared with us what Twitter is things to know about.
In this exclusive interview, Sagolla who was laid off from Odeo a podcasting business back in 2006 because of business cuts, talks about how he was inspired by the ideas of his friend Jack Dorsey of “telling someone what you’re doing without even thinking about it”, to come up with the concept of Twitter, as he attempted to view the system from the perspective of an user rather than an engineer that he is.
Twitter which nowadays is ranked amongst a few of the the vast majority of effective internet and social businesses is a site which enables it end users to share their thoughts and ideas as well as updates using 14o character short messages. And Don Sagolla was at the fore front of it all, and these days it’s revolutionizing the way individuals share their ideas and thoughts.
Talking more about Twitter, he revealed that he always tried everything, and wanted “something that would ignite the imagination of an audience”. That’s how he took place the essence of Twitter (140 words of hypertext) which he learned from hypertext, that they are not simply words, yet are “words with action”. About creating apps, he revealed that he created the app for the iPhone called “Big Words”, that makes it probable for one to type words on the iPhone, and it shows up in Big Letters on the screen.
Advising entrepreneurs who’re trying to begin up an app firm , Don Sagolla shared with us he called “…my life long lesson”, and his ideal for a perfect start up for an app business with these words “.. Simplicity is key! You have to locate the worth of producing something that ships for just one dollar”. He continued further to clarify that “…to make this work you need to begin from scratch with one idea and finding a method to produce it in 1 month with perhaps one other person…..In the starting, you involve very few individuals to keep your overheads really low, that way you limit the potential risks and the returns can be immediate since any recognition you get on the iTunes essentially leads to sales and an immediate return on investment”.
Moving forward, and revealing what I will call “the success plan for each app company” he explained that “Once you have recouped your initial investment and return from the 1st app, you take all the money from the 1st app and put it in his brand-new app which will have more functionality and a trifle more design and time put into the project”.
And on such notes, he added that the secret is to simply repeat this same formula continuously, and in no time, you’ll would have developed an incredible deal of apps, and build up an effective app business .
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Georgette Adanas has been writing articles on entrepreneur since 2003.