Javier Camara began his journey as an entrepreneur when pursuing computer engineering at Universidad de Deusto. After computer engineering, Camara earned a Master’s degree in the area of software engineering. An educational journey requiring much effort led Camara to an IT Consultant and Project Manager role at Oracle.
However, it was not long before Camara started yearning for beyond what his regular job offered him. This led Camara to develop an email marketing company known as CanalMail over twenty years ago. He then made an exit from the company after selling it to a venture capitalist in the United States of America.
Then, Camara and his erstwhile colleague Juan Imaz from Oracle started seeking a fresh challenge.
In 2014, Camara and Imaz started discussing the unpleasant situation of the dominant sites for professional networking. Before long, the two pinpointed the issue, which was that those websites lacked real pertinence to the ones who used them. The websites also excluded big swaths of individuals on the basis of the form of skills that they offered.
Camara stated that other websites for professional networking often pay attention to large corporations that have massive advertisement budgets. The websites are making pay-to-play closed networks. The standard user should fend for whatever is leftover, which is not a lot with regard to reach and attention. Camara described beBee as a network that allows sharing the services of professionals, including freelancers, in a way that removes the competition that accompanies massive corporations acquiring the whole space for ads.
This deficiency is exactly what beBee, the company of Camara, looks to remedy. A fusion of a professional and social networking platform, beBee is open to a freelancer from any walk of life. It is critically aimed at white-collar and blue-collar employees, a newly launched element that significantly changes the space. The company has a concept, too, which worked immediately among the target audience.
After its launch in 2015, beBee amassed a whopping 11-million user count in more than a year. It was just the start for Camara’s business operation. Before long, it expanded into two continents and had as many as 100 workers. The company headquarters are in New York and Madrid. It needs that multinational presence because of the diverse nature of its user base.
The platform has users from all corners of the world, with nation-specific sub-websites in an array of languages. The company mirrors that diversity in its existing business approach as well. Camara remarked that the key to beBee’s success is the quality of being diverse. The company has employees from the US, Romania, the UK, Spain, Cuba, Brazil, France, Germany and Italy. That is an example of diversity. When it comes to managers, Camara stated that beBee has a greater number of females than males.
All who work at beBee have one goal, which is to make a platform through all tools that freelancers require to get the experience they imagined in self-employment. To aid them, the company offers tools for users to search for jobs, besides a user profile system that looks to encourage their services. There is a blogging option, too, to aid users in expressing themselves and getting more noticeable.
It is one of the best one-stop destinations for everything that you want in the world of freelance. Whatever form of work one does, they would be able to have a home on the platform. On the other hand, for any form of service one requires, they will discover an adept professional who can do it there. It is different from other platforms in its scope, ambition and size.
As for Camara, that is just the start. Camara expects beBee to have a positive future in which it will keep improving and growing to satisfy the requirements of freelancers the world over. As for Camara, there are no limits to dreaming about getting better. Camara describes himself as a person who dreams as well as handles a project with the most ambition out of every project that he has tackled thus far in life. Describing beBee as his passion, Camara stated that he would fight to continue to dream whenever he is awake.
This attitude serves as a sign of how far Camara has reached from the humble beginnings he had in the Miranda de Ebro city.
