


While Todoist’s user base grew, Salihefendić wasn’t interested in making Todoist a full-time project, so he kept moonlighting on the app. Amir Salihefendić in an interview with the Postlight Podcast (2)Īmir dropped out of Aarhus around 2007/2008 and took a co-founder’s position at an emerging social network Plurk. And like one of the first suggestions he wanted to do is basically replace me as the CEO.“ I think it was like $500,000 or something-you know, for me that makes a few thousand dollars per month on this. 💬 “I actually very early on I got contacted by like some very famous VCs and they basically wanted to do a seed investment. He managed to convert some readers of his blog into the first batch of users, and coverage from sites like Lifehacker and Digg helped bring first VC offers. At some point, Salihefendić decided to spread the word about the new tool.
