What is the history of Wattpad?

Wattpad was founded by Allen Lau and Ivan Yuen from their passion of reading. Ivan thought of Wattpad for a personal longing and states for the University of Waterloo’s newspaper that he “read[s] a lot, and there were few options for taking reading with you. Like most engineers, [he] just built [his] own thing” (University of Waterloo). Ivan then”approached his friend and previous co-worker Allen Lau with the idea for Wattpad. Coincidentally, Allen had been working on something similar”. At that point, they were early for the times, but once technology grew further and opened more access, Wattpad was already there. Having the app on a mobile device allows you to read any downloaded story offline. With this main attraction for those going on vacation or even commuting somewhere, 85-90% of consumers use the mobile app. Wattpad has 22 categories for writing, reading, and browsing. Stories are also tagged with keywords or phrases, for finding things you like much more conveniently. There are over 100 million stories to read, with more being published every day

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