Collis Ta’eed founded a little company called Envato back in 2006, and three years later it has flourished into a corporation with 18 extremely successful subsidiaries that employ writers and designers from all over the world. Its diversity ranges from tutorial blogs covering almost every topic in the design world, to successful marketplaces that provide you with all the design materials you will ever need.
With the entrepreneurial genius of Collis and assistance from his talented staff, they have turned Envato into a giant in the world of design that acquires at least 11 million hits a month across it’s network of sites. Now pose those burning questions you have always wanted to ask Collis today!
Pose Your Questions in the Comments
In the near future, I will be interviewing Collis. We want to make it as informative to our readers as possible, this is why we want you (the reader) to post a question for Collis in the comments below.
For those of you not familiar with Collis, he started Psdtuts+ and the Tuts+ network, has a tremendous amount of blogging, design, web design, and business building knowledge. He is the CEO of Envato. So this will be a great interview!
About the Coming Interview
Since our last interview with our editor Sean was so successful, we figured that the next step should be to interview the creator of Envato Collis Ta’eed. The procedure will be exactly the same as the previous interview only the questions will now be directed towards Collis now.
Feel free to ask any type of questions ranging from the business end of the company, to design, or anything large or small that you would like to know about Collis. It’s time to pick his brain a bit!
We want this interview to be successful, so we once again need your help. Post your questions in the comments. I’ll then go through and pick out some questions that will make this interview interesting as well as informative.
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What were your earnings in the last year?
How many hours a week do you work?
The guy is very clever, he created a great network of free & paid sites… Hope I get a great idea like that in near future…
Where would you like envato to be in 10 years, and do you think you will still be CEO in 10 years time?
Also, if a major player offered you a billion dollars to buy out envato, would you sell?
If the radius of a watermelon is qual to 12, the diamater of an orange equal to 3 and the circumfrance of a banana is 24, how many people is there on an airplane ?
864 people on the airplane
Pepsi or Coca Cola? Mac or PC? And so why? lol
1. If you like to gift a PLUS account to someone, who is in your mind first?
2. When you come back to finish your 5 part series?
3. what will you do, if larry page give you the admin power of Google to your hand?
4. you addicted to what? [Dont say Envato! or other related ]
5. Tell something people doesn’t know about you?
……………
what is the meaning of Envato??
And who choose the name psdtuts???
What was the biggest challenge you faced in setting up envato, psdtuts+ etc and how did you overcome it? How have you grown from this challenge and if you were to hit another hurdle like it, do you think you would have learned enough to be able to handle it better?
Also, can we expect to see the amazing typography series of tutorials finished at some stage?
hi, my question to collis would be…
how do you find/search the real talent to work with you? you know many times you can’t always find the RIGHT people to get to the work, especially start it.
in fact i face a lot of problems trusting people and assigning them bits to work on, because i rarely find them.
regards,
prasenjit
Are you a millionaire?
How old were you when you started making websites?
Why did you decide to start Envato?
Do you prefer Mac or PC
are you a Muslim?
which country are you from?
what are you future planing?
I hope somewhere in your mind is going on about starting new sites like CellPhoneTuts+, seoTuts+, TwitterTuts+
, isn’t it?
what is the name of the font?
How big is your junk?
I mean, I have a storage unit filled to the top and some stuff in my friend’s basement.
LOL @ first glance
1. Was it easy to create?
2. What management apps and methods do you use (calendars, document management, skype, ms project…)?
3. How did it start?
4. What have you studied?
5. How have you promoted all these sites at the beginning?
6. What are your plans for the future?
7. What is your daily routine?
8. Have you ever done anything really crazy?
1.- Do you think Envato can grow up to include people in other languages?
2.- How do you organize your day activities at work?
3.- How many people is involved in this huge project?
4.- How many hours do you work every week?
Any bad habits?
How often do you wake up in the morning, scratch your balls and say, “sod it, I’m staying in bed.”
I don’t see that collis answers even a comment yet.
After the interview post fires up he will answer…
He is also very much excited to answer…
Are there any plans for adding more countries to the list on the payment page? I am hoping Serbia will be one of them.
9. What would you recommend us to read (any favourite and useful books?)?
10. What websites do you visit often? Why?
11. Where are you looking for inspiration?
How much of a background did you have in art before you really got into designing? Did you do a lot of traditional art, or did you more so just hop in to Photoshop and figure out that you could do great things??
Scare about Swine Flu??
And You fear about death at any time…?