About Enrique Dubois and Wamba

Kike know from many many years ago, and yesterday gave me joy, after a long time without seeing at least a couple of years-eat with him at a restaurant in La Moraleja in Madrid. Genie appears and nobody can stop looking with the corner of the eye he does. I met him when I was 16 or 17 years and since that time, in various sectors within the Internet, nobody can deny that it has been one of the people who best know monetize the network.

Enrique is placed on the Internet a peculiar character. Will remember that 1 year and a half or maybe 2 years and who called me and told me about what is now his current project, the social network Wamba. Yesterday we discussed several projects that have in mind, and one of mine and we will be seeing what points we encounter between the two.

On Wamba, I must admit that it is not too encouraging, it is more than I thought it was really difficult that might get some results as relevant social network traffic.

At this time I have been following its development, chatting with him occasionally by phone and MSN and I must admit that some things have surprised me very positively.

First Enrique has evolved with Wamba. The site was born with some mistakes, structural concept, trying to cover too, with programming flaws and marked by a lack of traffic. Even as I remember joking with him every time I went to see him and that he saw 10 pictures of 5 were "Enrique on the beach, on a boat Enrique, Enrique with a drink ... "Has spent much of that time and there has been a huge trend that nobody can deny.

Wamba has purchased 2 webs, one Spanish and one in Latin America of the highest traffic and just integrate a very intelligent, which causes that currently has a greater volume of unique visitors to other sites that are more recognized for it as Sonic , A Latino, or Tuenti, level Spanish. I estimate that these integrations Wamba closed after the month with 8 or 9 million unique users in Nielsen. Never before have I seen something like this in just 2 years of work, and a lot of controversy or criticism it has attracted, quite frankly, I'd love to have achieved those 9 million users in 2 years myself, to take off his hat.

I am sure we will soon have a corporate press release with Wamba and I am not surprised that Kike and his investor Morten Lund will come to sell all or part of the company. Certainly not in 1000 million euros as suggested by Morten (dammit, what people write barbarities), but if the figures possibly both be happy and be grown from an interesting revenue.

I think it is true that several controversial purchase and type of content that were in vagos.es but always encouraged him to close that operation. He bought the site, users migrated, it has a very positive and has been removing the disputed content. It looks to me a clever and round out your project, in which the key is traffic. Now the challenge will be the monetization.

I also have our draft Yes.fm some synergy ... do not forget that Wamba is an online music radio, wamba.fm and I believe that we are not going to cost a lot of power found in that aspect, after opening at Yes.fm the next month of September a point of collaboration.

Enrique, who has a particular sense of humor, sends me this video in which he has had the courage and little sense of the ridiculous (dammit, Enrique, what laughter, I could not) from recorded in a peculiar version of Rodolfo Chiquilicuatre (or as hell is said). Those who know strongly recommend you see it:

Also, from another perspective, talk of Wamba in Loogic

Tags: Enrique Dubois, Sonic, tuenti, Wamba