Candice Factor

Yeah, I would say... So we have some creators that are on track to do 7 figures this year.

Absolutely.

Absolutely.

So I joined Wattpad.

I was the first non-technical employee and I joined to help scale the business.

So I was the head of business and the global general manager.

And 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, you know, we always thought of as, you know, isolated, which was reading, right?

Like most people think you read alone.

Well, actually, what we learned at Wattpad is it's really, really great to read with community and also to read on a serialized basis.

And so when you think about disco, it actually...

So much of what I'm bringing to Disco, I learned from Wattpad, which is learning, especially virtually in an old world, all used to be about learning alone, right?

Watching pre-recorded courses and consuming content alone.

And what I got really excited about during the pandemic, when we all had to...

sort of work from home, we learned that we can actually learn live together.

And so just like we did at Wattpad, which was bringing a social element to reading, we're bringing a social element to learning because the science of learning is that you actually learn better with people because people hold you accountable, they give you support, you're able to reflect more with them.

And so lots of learnings from Wattpad in Disco.

Oh, so I left Wattpad a few years ago.

I helped scale Wattpad to, as I said, 80 million people and then realized I wanted to do some other things at that point.

And so this was, you know, after a few years of... What year was that, by the way, that you left?