3 June 2019
For Allen Lau, it turns out that sometimes the biggest decision in a business can be to stick to your original idea and build on it.
That's his story, anyway. It's the story of Wattpad Corp., a Canadian company that started in 2006 as an online reading room and now attracts 70 million users a month to its site and app in more than 50 languages.
"People share their stories, from science fiction to romance to everything in between. Every day we see about half a billion uploads of content," says Mr. Lau, Wattpad's co-founder and CEO.