Mihailo a.k.a “Michael Christmas” Bozic, CEO & Founder of Envited joined us for this episode of Weird Growth. Envited helps you create events for any social media in under 2 minutes. What we like most about Envited so far is it is so lightweight and easy to use. Mihailo shares the non-scalable tactics he used to grow his meme page “Just Jedi Things” and now Envited which launched across the globe this week. Mihailo & Jordan Saddik raised a Seed Round with Galileo Ventures and now looking for their next round of funding to keep up with growth.

Only 2% of teens use Facebook. Therefore, Facebook Events cannot be a sustainable solution to social media events in the future. What will that platform look like? Envited is on the journey to find out.

Talk to customers. Super simple. Don’t overcomplicate it. If you have their phone number just call them. It’s so important as a founder to be close to your users. You need to know what users are frustrated with and what they love.

(00:00) - Introduction

(00:47) - Meet Michael Christmas

(02:09) - The business Mihailo would start today

(04:11) - How Envited built a prototype at TechStars startup weekend

(05:32) - Growing a meme page – Just Jedi Things

(07:30) - Why memes grow so fast

(07:51) - A brief history of memes

(08:23) - Harambe’s death was a turning point for memes & culture

(10:31) - What running a meme page taught Mihailo Bozic about growth?

(13:50) - Find early customers who will use your product when its crap

(14:26) - Building in public

(16:33) - What’s the biggest challenge for Envited right now?

(19:19) – Raising 350K Seed over Zoom

(23:14) – How Envited found their first team members

(28:22) – Creativity is the most underrated skill to hire for

(29:20) – What’s next for Envited?

(30:07) – Mihailo’s one big piece of advice for founders

(31:04) – The one thing Mihailo can’t live without – Dual Monitors

- Envited - https://www.envited.io/

- Galileo Ventures - https://galileo.ventures/

- Earlywork - https://www.earlywork.co/

- Startmate - https://www.startmate.com/

- MSI Monitors - https://www.msi.com/Monitor/Optix-MAG274QRF-QD

- Envited Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/envited.io/