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In my case, introduced to it by friends, I slowly became addicted, clicking and double-clicking my way through until my online “library” was full of romance and the paranormal, often finishing 40-chapter stories in a day. I believe the younger generation are at such an age where they are more perceptive to new ideas and new concepts, and that’s why it started taking off.” We wanted to create a place for people to share their writing and that’s actually pretty generic. Once we discovered we were working on a similar idea we decided to start a company.” However, Lau didn’t expect the initial growth to be among young female users. “Ivan (Yuen, co-founder of Wattpad) was one step ahead of me and in addition to a mobile reading app he also created a website which allowed people to share their writing on mobile devices.
It started as “a mobile reading app,” says Allen Lau, Wattpad’s co-founder and CEO. Wattpad is a global sensation in young adult literature. What my gushing friend was trying to say was: “When will you upload on to Wattpad next?” If you’ve not heard of Wattpad, you don’t know a girl in her early teens. No, I do not have a publishing deal and no, I have no real experience in creative writing apart from a few amateur attempts at creating my own novel, a journey I began at the age of 11. “Y ou have to upload your next chapter, Hazal, I want to know what happens next,” a close friend gushed to me one morning during registration.