So, I’m excited about the new life and my life partner and all the things happening there. But once you start a job, I got married around six months after college in a job. I could spend time on blog or I could do whatever I want. In college, I have this free time and no responsibilities. Purna: So, I think this is also life is catching up with me. I think you went for a stretch of months without putting anything up, which is unusual for you. And then I do so your blog just went silent for a period there. You’re talking about writing a media plan for chili-tasted lipstick. I see you with a photo on a motorcycle and some blog posts where you’re just talking about what you did for fun. I see you talking about not getting enough sleep as a student. I see you were really just trying to figure out what you were going to talk about. But it’s not something where I could deeply comment.Īndrew: Yeah. So, I just had an interest of advertising. So, I wanted to share some of my observations and insights from that side of the world. I think around that time, a lot of online campaigns were catching up and viral campaigns and those kinds of things. Initially I thought I would write about advertising because I was fascinated by the advertising world, various things happening. So, I thought maybe I should pick up some new topics to write about. I couldn’t write in the blog that, “I went to the office today and came back.” There is not much to say in that story. In college, there is a lot of freedom and there is a lot of variety in the things you do, but once you start the job, it kind of falls into a routine. So, I would write about what kind of projects as part of my coursework and where I’m traveling, all sorts of stuff.īut once you finish your MBA, I started my work. ![]() I used to be quite interested in marketing and a little bit of finance and those ideas. Throughout 2004, 2005 and the middle of 2006, I was talking about my MBA life and what happens in college, what kind of new friends I’m making and all the parties I’m attending, all the new things I’m learning about various aspects in management. ![]() I was probably enrolling in an MBA program at that time. I bought this domain for purely personal blogging in 2004, the end of 2004. You were still able to build a phenomenal company that generated in 2014 how revenue?Īndrew: $1 million, a little bit more than $1 million, right?Īndrew: This whole thing started because you were finishing your MBA and you were blogging at the time, right?Īndrew: What was the website that you were blogging on? Unfortunately, it wasn’t up anymore.Īndrew: With all this bandwidth issue–in fact, you’re a long-time Mixergy fan who had to stop listening because of bandwidth issues. The house isn’t ready yet, but the connection is there. They assured me that it’s going to support video calls. So, yesterday I had a new internet connection installed there. We don’t have very good reliable bandwidth to use the high speed routs. It’s a little bit different, but the main reason is I operate this company from a small town in India. ![]() Back to the interview.Īndrew: So, Chandoo, we are talking by phone instead of by video, Skype. Andrew should have said that if you want him to personally introduce you to Toptal, contact him at Okay. I’m Sachit, guy who sells ads for Mixergy. When you’re ready to move up from those cheap and undependable freelance sites and really get an insanely smart developer to work part-time, full-time, whatever, with your company, go to /Mixergy. I’ll tell you more about them, but if you want a sneak peak, go to /Mixergy. They have a team of bookkeepers and software to help keep your books in order. If you don’t know how much revenue you generated last month, last quarter, last year, you’re really having a hard time organizing your finances–your business’ finances, I should say–use Bench. This interview is sponsored by Bench Accounting. Duggirala–do I have that right?Īndrew: But you go by Chandoo and you are the founder of, a site that offers Excel training, consulting and development. I’ve got it here phonetically spelled and I still wanted to make sure to get it right. Joining me straight from India is Purna–Purna, how do you pronounce your last name?Īndrew: Duggirala. I’m the founder of, home of the ambitious upstart and coming at you today with no video, just audio as I’ll explain in a moment.
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