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Allen Lau On Selling His Storytelling Platform For $660 Million And Now Investing In AI-Driven Startups

In a captivating interview with Allen Lau, the co-founder and former CEO of Wattpad, we delve into the fascinating journey of an entrepreneur who started from humble beginnings in Hong Kong and went on to create one of the most successful storytelling platforms in the world. The post Allen Lau On …

#14 - Allen Lau, Wattpad | Two Small Fish Ventures. Learning Machine

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Alan Lau, the co-founder of Wattpad, lead one of Canada's largest tech exits to Naver at $660M. She shares his journey as a recovering CEO and his transition to post-CEO life. He discusses the challenges and stress of being a CEO and the need for recovery.  Alan also reflects on his decision to sta…

Raising a Billion Dollar Baby

If you’re looking for leadership advice to survive in today’s booming tech market, this A-list panel has you covered. Join us on Friday April 22nd as the country’s top tech founders, Allen Lau (Wattpad), Tony Lacavera (WIND Mobile & Globalive) and Steve Woods (Nudge & Eloqua) discuss what it takes…

#32-Allen Lau, Co-Founder of Wattpad: Lessons From Building A $600M Startup And Funding The Future of Innovation

Allen Lau is a self-described 'recovering' CEO, and 3x entrepreneur, an engineer by training, a rocket scientist at heart, and a venture capitalist by profession. He was the CEO and co-founder of Wattpad, the world's largest social storytelling company with 100 million monthly users. A few years ag…

From Startup to $660M Exit: The Wattpad Story | Allen Lau

Join host Matan Hazanov for an incredible discussion with Allen Lau, co-founder of Wattpad, the global storytelling platform that sold for an astounding $660M USD. From his roots as a software engineer to scaling Wattpad to 100M users, Allen shares hard-earned lessons on finding product-market fit…

Wattpad Studios: How a User-Driven Platform Is Turning Grassroots Stories into Global Blockbusters and Reshaping Hollywood’s Playbook

Wattpad Studios, the entertainment arm of the social storytelling platform Wattpad, represents a fundamental shift in how narratives move from the digital page to global screens. Born in 2006 from the combined vision of Allen Lau and Ivan Yuen, Wattpad began as a mobile-first reading platform that …

Wattpad’s Revolution: How a Free Storytelling App Became a Global Entertainment Powerhouse—and Launched Hollywood Careers

Wattpad, launched in 2006 by Canadian innovators Allen Lau and Ivan Yuen, has fundamentally redefined the landscape of storytelling by leveraging mobile-first technology and user-generated content. Initially envisioned as a mobile reading platform for public domain literature, Wattpad’s true transf…

#3 - Shot Show 2026 Day 4 (Interview with Allen Lau of Amarok Sports @ 1:42 mark)

Jesse, Tommy and Devon talk about Day 4 at Shot Show which ended up being our last day at the show. We talk about different vendors we spoke with on the last day and some video interviews we completed as well which included Amarok (Amaroksports.us) and Viridian (ViridianWeaponTech.com) . We talk ab…

The Story of Wattpad

"I would absolutely attribute some of our successes to like building this company in Canada and not anywhere else." On this episode in the Pender Ventures series on great Canadian technology companies, Maria Pacella, Managing Partner, hosts Co-Founder and Operating Partner of Two Small Fish Ventur…

PODCAST: AI vs. Abundance—Allen Lau

Recently, I moderated a panel at the VRTO Spatial Media Conference about the evolution of value in the age of AI. One of the panelists was Allen Lau, co-founder and former CEO of Wattpad, and now co-founder and Operating Partner at Two Small Fish Ventures. Allen has already lived through an earlier…