Lets talk more about snip it
Tell us what is the idea about
Is there an investment in it ?
How many employees in it ?
And lets talk about the place that we are in right now
Sure the story behind snip it was very simple
Actually during the Egyptian revolution
A lot of my friends in America asked me about my opinion on what is happening in Egypt
And I was as you could imagine [from minute 12:08 – 12:09 not clear]
All the day long I was watching youtube ,
Reading all the articles related
And every possible news source
My friends were telling me what is interesting
So I started doing basically what everybody does
I would share facebook shares with them
So it was very frustrating
In the 25 of January I posted
You know the most civil counter revolution it says
Today is etc etc 25 January
It appeared on everyone facebook feed
then after 2 or 3 hours it disappeared from the feed
nothing permanents , the feed disappeared from facebook or twitter
another problem for example
all my follower were people
who interested in entrepreneurship
so I can’t all of a sudden speak about the revolution
cause they might not be interested
but I’m interested
so I figured something out
well it was very frustrating
so I took a step back and said what is I really want ?
what I really want to do is to have a place where I can freely say I love Egypt
and I love entrepreneurship
and love San Francisco and maybe I love football etc
and here I’m constantly consuming content
here all the important links
the important pieces of videos ,articles , images that I find
and here is my opinion associated with it
and you can go to that page
and you feel it must be like an album
in it everything that matter
and I can share it with the world
and that was the idea behind the snip it
we built
oh I left the investment
I just built the original prototype myself
There was help from another individual
After 3 months we had a prototype and we raised funding
After raising the funding we built a team
And now we are about 6 people
Excellent
And we have a few thousands of users
The large number are actually from the middle east
The website is sinp.it
About the Guest:
Ramy Adeeb, and Egyptian entrepreneur and the founder of snip.it , snip.it lets you collect the best of the web,organize your thoughts and find things that interest you.
“Ramy loves building things — as much as he loves breaking them. After finishing college, Ramy led the enterprise engineering team at Tellme Networks shortly after the company`s founding in 2000 and until its acquisition by Microsoft in 2007. There, he led the development of over 30 products. Before founding Snip.it, Ramy spent a couple of years at Khosla Ventures working on investments such as Square, Groupme, and Ness Technologies.”
Ramy got his BSc. In computer science from Harvard university, then he got his MBA from Stanford University.
