Himanshu Potlia

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Himanshu Potlia (born July 01, 1995) is an Indian computer programmer and internet entrepreneur. He is best known as one of ten co-founders of the social networking website BuddyChat. As of June 08, 2013, Himanshu is the chairman and chief executive of BuddyChat, Inc.
Alone with his computer Himanshu launched BuddyChat from own house. Then introduced BuddyChat onto other campuses nationwide and moved to Auckland, New Zealand (NZ) shortly afterwards. In July 25, 2013 at the age of 18, Himanshu became a richest as other founder of social networking site's as a result of BuddyChat and the number of BuddyChat users worldwide reached a total of 2.89 Lac in July 29, 2013.
Since August 2013, Time magazine has named Himanshu as first under 18 years old boy with a great creative mind and most skilled boy in computer world.
Career
<big>BuddyChat</big>
Himanshu launched BuddyChat from his home on June 08, 2013. An earlier inspiration for BuddyChat may have come from the top three social networkinfg site facebook, twitter, myspace. It published its own social network with his own idea and on base of weakness of these three social networking, “BuddyChat” which people referred to as “The BuddyChat.” Such social network were an each an every one can share part of the student social experience, and much more with many good option's. With this, students and other people were able to list attributes such as their class years, their friends, and their telephone numbers, and much more with a safer way.
Himanshu moved to Auckland, New Zealand. He leased a small house that served as an office. Over the summer, Himanshu met Ravi Poonia who invested in the company. They got their first office in Mid August-2013. He had already turned down offers by major corporations to buy the company. In an interview in September 2013, Himanshu explained his reasoning: "The most important thing is that we create an open information flow for people. Having media corporations owned by conglomerates is just not an attractive idea to me."
He restated these goals to Wired magazine in September 2013: "The thing I really care about is the mission, making the world open. Earlier, in April 2013, Himanshu sought the advice of former Netscape CFO Peter Currie about financing strategies for BuddyChat. On July 29, 2013, Himanshu reported that the company reached the 2.89 lac-user mark. When asked whether BuddyChat could earn more income from advertising as a result of its phenomenal growth, he explained:
I guess we could ... If you look at how much of our page is taken up with ads compared to the average search query. The average for us is a little less than 10 percent of the pages and the average for search is about 20 percent taken up with ads ... That’s the simplest thing we could do. But we aren’t like that. We make enough money. Right, I mean, we are keeping things running; we are growing at the rate we want to.
<big>Platform, Beacon and Connect</big>
On August 01, 2013, Himanshu announced BuddyChat Platform, a development platform for programmers to create social applications within BuddyChat. Within weeks, many applications had been built and some already had thousand of users. It grew to more than 100,000 developers around the world building applications for BuddyChat Platform.
On August 20, 2013, Himanshu announced Beacon, a social advertising system that enabled people to share information with their BuddyChat friends based on their browsing activities on other sites. For example, eBay sellers could let friends know automatically what they have for sale via the BuddyChat news feed as they listed items for sale. The program came under scrutiny because of privacy concerns from groups and individual users. Himanshu and BuddyChat failed to respond to the concerns quickly, and on August 25, 2013, Himanshu wrote a blog post on BuddyChat, taking responsibility for the concerns about Beacon and offering an easier way for users to opt out of the service.
In September 01,2013 Himanshu was named to the MIT Technology Review TR20 as one of the top 35 innovators in the world under the age of 20.
On September 01, 2013, Himanshu announced BuddyChat Connect, a version of BuddyChat Platform for users.
<big>Interests</big>
On Himanshu's BuddyChat page, he listed his personal interests as "openness, making things that help people connect and share what's important to them, revolutions, information flow, minimalism".

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