Andrew Darwis

Andrew Dervish (born July 20, 1979, age 32 years) was the founder (founders) of the largest online community in Indonesia, Kaskus Kaskus.us the website which now has more than 3 million members. Andrew now serves as Chief Technology Officer (CTO) Media Indonesia PT Darta (Kaskus) and owner (owner) Kaskus Network Media Indonesia through PT Darta.


SD: Tarakanita Pluit Jakarta
SMP: Tarakanita Pluit Jakarta
High School: Gandhi National School, Ancol Jakarta '98
University Information Systems, University of Bina Nusantara, 1998
University: Multimedia & Web Design, Art Institute of Seattle, 1999 - 2003
University: Master of Computer Science, Seattle University, 2004 - 2006
Religion: Confucian


Career

Part-time work in web design and indotradezone.com kemana.com (1998)
Web designer Thor Loki, Seattle, United States (2003 - 2006)
Web designers lyrics.com, Seattle, United States (2007 - 2008)
Founder & CTO Kaskus (1999-present)


Kaskus establish

Andrew Kaskus established on 6 November 1999. Starting from his experiences while studying at one of the leading universities in the land of Uncle Sam, Seattle University, Multimedia Studies Program & Web Design, Art Institute of Seattle Computer Science in 1999, the man called Andrew was inspired to create a website community forum that can be said be the largest in Indonesia. "I was assigned by the teacher to make a program of free software, from which started the idea to create a website with Kaskus name." Andrew said the company is working on lyrics.com in college in America.


Kaskus is derived from meaningful whispering or gossiping. With initial capital of U.S. $ 3 (USD 30.000, -) to buy a server, Andrew, and two colleagues, Ronald and Budi, chose to make a portal that contains the news and information about Indonesia. Portal was deliberately made to be a medium to satisfy the longing for the Indonesian people who are outside the country.
The benefit is getting better stretching online business, and the many people who start online businesses see Andrew as a great potential to support the development of Kaskus. Based on the survey, there are more than 40 million Internet users in Indonesia. With an incredible amount, he assumes that each Internet user is a potential target market.


Barriers Andrew admitted that they experienced at the beginning of the toughest obstacles Kaskus formation. He had to intervene directly and fix if there server is down, because at that Andrew does not have employees. In addition it also endured the toughest obstacle when moving to Jakarta, karenai he must convince the customer and the advertiser about the image of Kaskus.
Andrew and his team of marketing at the start of the business must bergeriliya door to door to the client to introduce Kaskus positioning and less than 1 year, Kaskus has been trusted by many of the clients who already support Kaskus Kaskus since it was first launched in December 2008. Kaskus 2 months ago officially became a professional company under the banner of PT. Darta Media Indonesia.


Currently, Kaskus has 3,730,031 members (update pertanggal December 3, 2011 at 11:55) and continues to grow every second. Kaskus have a target market of 15-40 years of age both among students, college students, employees, professional and entrepreneur.
Also received numerous awards including The Andrew Indonesian Best Communities for 2005 and 2006 versions of Alexa.com and Wikipedia, with the nomination of the Microsoft Innovative Top Kaskus Indonesia Web Site in 2008, and the nomination of Indosat with Kaskus The Online Inspiring Award in 2009 .


This time to manage Kaskus, Andrew assisted 30 employees are divided into teams of marketing (marketing), sales, IT and creative.
With so much content in Kaskus.us, without a doubt Andrew said Sale and Purchase content (FJB) and Lounge as a newbie visited play. The newbie who came from all corners of Indonesia that could use this content for online business transactions. In one day alone, 80 thousand a list of items, included in the Sale and Purchase Forum (FJB).
Andrew's obsession to be achieved for the development of its online business is to continue to develop content (existing facilities in the website) In Indonesia, so that later people are going to buy out negerilah's content.


Appreciation

2005, 2006: The best version of the Indonesian Communities Alexa.com and Wikipedia.
2008: The Microsoft: Web Site That KASKUS Indonesia Inovative Recognized as Top Web Site (2008)
2009: By Indosat: Kaskus - The Online Inspiring Award 2009