ANAND LAL SHIMPI

http://www.anandtech.com/

Yearly Ad revenue – $1.5 million

Anand Lal Shimpi is a founder of Anandtech & he is an American businessman who is, 27, of Indian and Iranian  parents. He is currently CEO of the tech website AnandTech, which he started in 1997.

AnandTech grew from a small Geo Cities website in 1997 to a 50 million page view per month publication as of July 2005.He has been featured in USA Today, 48 Hours, 20/20, Fortune Magazine and on G4.

He was one of the keynote speakers at Computex 2003 as a celebrity speaker to entice show goers to return to Taiwan even in the wake of SARS.He also has appeared on ZDTV (now TechTV) and CBS. His site, anandtech.com, receives more than 50 million page views per month.

What you need to know about Anand is that he is extremely passionate about what he does.

His passion has always transcended the physical limitations of his body, and has allowed him to pursue his passion beyond fatigue and tiredness. Starting with his grandfather, this is something that has been sown in him right from his early years. Those seeds produced a certain fruit in his father, and his father in turn passed the bug to his son. This is how Anand puts it:

” My Interest in computers came from my father, but interest in hardware came from my mother. She is the handy person in the house interested in carpentry.”

” I think the men who burn out are the ones who stop enjoying doing what they are doing. I’m honestly enjoying doing what I am doing!”

Thanks to the Internet, the moment Anand was allowed to go online, was the moment he was able to change his life and that of his parents.

The incredible thing about Anand’s story apart from the fact that he was a 14 year old teenager when he started is that, he started his business without A DIME!!

Today, Anand is running a multi-million dollar empire!! Draw all the inspiration you can from Anand’s journey, and silence the loud voice within you trying to convince you with eloquent excuses of why you can’t succeed.

“Don’t make excuses and Don’t talk about it. Do it.”
Melvyn Douglas

 ”Excuses change nothing, but make everyone feel better.”
Mason Cooley“He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else.”
Benjamin Franklin