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Censored Internet
Connecting The Censored Internet: AnchorFree CEO David Gorodyansky, Mountain View, CA (Part 7)
Sramana Mitra: Do you have partnerships with companies like Skype, Facebook, or other sites that you enable in censored countries? David Gorodyansky: We don’t, but we probably will at some point. I think they know about us because we send such a huge amount of traffic to them. We are happy to talk to them
Connecting The Censored Internet: AnchorFree CEO David Gorodyansky, Mountain View, CA (Part 6)
Sramana Mitra: How has your user growth been affected by the Middle East protests? David Gorodyansky: In Egypt we had about 100,000 users before the uprisings. When they blocked Facebook, Twitter, and the rest of the sites, our usage jumped to 1 million users in a single day. We did not market or advertise; that
Connecting The Censored Internet: AnchorFree CEO David Gorodyansky, Mountain View, CA (Part 5)
Sramana Mitra: What is the ad server infrastructure that supports 2 billion page view a month? David Gorodyansky: It is our own infrastructure. We work with a lot of partners to sell the ads. We have hired a lot of engineers but not a lot of ad sales people. We partner with companies like Yahoo!
Connecting The Censored Internet: AnchorFree CEO David Gorodyansky, Mountain View, CA (Part 4)
Sramana Mitra: What was your motivation for raising a second round of funding? Was it related to the censorship market? David Gorodyansky: In 2008 when we had our second round of money, we did it exactly for that reason. We were already well funded to address the Western market, but we wanted to cater to
Connecting The Censored Internet: AnchorFree CEO David Gorodyansky, Mountain View, CA (Part 3)
Sramana Mitra: All word-of-mouth advertising is seeded somewhere. How did you seed your word-of-mouth campaign? David Gorodyansky: I think it just kind of took off. I would love to identify a specific news article or event that made it happen, but I am not sure what that is. I know that it started taking off
Connecting The Censored Internet: AnchorFree CEO David Gorodyansky, Mountain View, CA (Part 2)
Sramana Mitra: In 2005, did you plan to do what your business is doing today? David Gorodyansky: This is what we planned to do, but it has evolved a bit. There is another very major functionality of the product that we did not even realized when we launched. We filed a bunch of patents after
Connecting The Censored Internet: AnchorFree CEO David Gorodyansky, Mountain View, CA (Part 1)
If you haven’t already, please study our Bootstrapping Course and Investor Introductions page. David Gorodyansky is the CEO and co-founder of AnchorFree. Previously, David founded Intelligent Buying Inc., a profitable asset management company and reseller of IT enterprise networking equipment. Prior to that, David launched a B2B Web service in the field of competitive intelligence, which in turn, gave
