“Jaw-dropping!”
Why we built
From
a co-founder of empowr.com comes this
"Why?" story behind the massive social platform, empowr, that’s been
in the making for fifteen years. Learn exactly what drove the participants
(founders, advisers, success coaches and 1,000 employees plus 100,000 alpha
test users) in their gigantic moonshot project. After meticulously discussing
the "Why?" the author then delves into how empowr has been designed to
exploit the exponential characteristics of the web - via its tightly-integrated
democratic, economic and educational platform - to deliver opportunity to
people everywhere. The book reads like a manifesto and a manual. One can’t help
but come away with newfound or elevated inspiration to dream big, take on their
own moonshot project and make a massive difference on the planet.
About the Author
Michael
C Pousti, Co-Founder of empowr
Mike
Pousti is the co-founder of empowr, a partnership between academia and tech
entrepreneurs that's attempting to deliver a democratized social media
experience where the company is governed by its citizens.
Mike
began his entrepreneurial journey when he founded his first start-up during his
senior year as a computer engineering student at UC San Diego (UCSD).
Employing 200 people and generating millions of dollars in profits before
the age of 22, his company, Higher Educational Resources Corporation, developed
the first commercially successful search engine on the Internet, known as the
Arpanet.
His
next start-up, Productivity Solutions Corporation, was acquired when he was 24
and two years later, Mike started CollegeClub.com,
the world’s leading website for the 18-23-year-old demographic.
After
the dot-com crash in 2000, CollegeClub.com was acquired, and less than a week
later, Mike started Phase 1 of empowr. empowr’s highly patented suite of
technologies generated over $150M U.S. and today, empowr's proprietary
technologies are used by all major social platforms including Facebook,
Twitter, Instagram, Google Plus and Tumblr.
While
Mike remains an integral part in the daily operations of empowr, he recently
relinquished his CEO position and handed over control of the company to
empowr’s citizens, who formally elected their leader (and new President of
empowr) via a web-based election.
“Jaw-dropping!”
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