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by Anand Lal Shimpi on 11/28/2004 12:00 PM EST
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  • guidot - Wednesday, December 8, 2004 - link

    #8 that statement is not entirely true. My g/f owns a BMW that daddy didn't buy her and she is under 25. It all depends on how you use (or don't use) your money.
  • Anonymous - Monday, November 29, 2004 - link

    #7: Anand would never disclose that. I am sure it is an expensive car considering that he was driving a BMW when he was 17. Besides, it would disclose his financial status.
  • ksherman - Monday, November 29, 2004 - link

    Hey Anand, what kinda car you drive? Ive always wondered what a rich person who spends their life on a computer would drive out in the real world... a Chevy Nova? (OCed of course! best bang for the buck!)
  • Anonymous - Monday, November 29, 2004 - link

    Yep, so that gives you an idea of his assets and the amount of advertisement revenue he generates from AnandTech every year.

    By the way, unknown authors don't make much. Even though Anand became the industry legend fairly quickly, I doubt that his publisher signed him up for too much money. Unless you are a well renowned author and a well liked author, you don't have very much value. You have to write tons of books (unless your first book gets featured on every news station and you are famous over night) in order to get rich from authoring books. :)
  • crtfanboy - Monday, November 29, 2004 - link

    let the jokes about "teen capitalist" commence
  • crtfanboy - Monday, November 29, 2004 - link

    http://www.gnextinc.com/capitalist/feature/toptyco...

    he's number 7 on teen capitalist's top 15 internet moguls under 30

    and let's not forget all that money he made from that book of his:
    http://store.worldsearch.com/the_anandtech_guide_t...

    I wonder if I can get an autographed copy?
  • Anonymous - Sunday, November 28, 2004 - link

    By the way, I know this for a fact since I have a friend who works for a company that used to advertise on AnandTech not too long ago. I don't know about AnandTech, but TomsHardware charges around $20,000 for 1 million ad views per month, which is nothing. And let's not forget that TomsHardware serves close to 68 million page views a month so you can calculate their income somewhat. Of course, not all of their inventory is sold and people do block ads, so it's not like they are making $1.3 billion a month. LOL

    I would guess that AnandTech and TomsHardware make around $100,000 a month for sure, if not more.
  • Anonymous - Sunday, November 28, 2004 - link

    #1: If you know anything about the advertising industry and marketing, you know that companies spend millions of dollars on advertising every year. Let me give you a real-life example - if companies stop marketing, every product's price will be cut by 25%. 25% of the product's final price goes into marketing budget.

    And since AnandTech is one of the Top 3 hardware sites on in the world with close to 4 million readers, they make millions. Ever wonder how Anand manages to have 20 person staff for AnandTech. They are not working for free.


    If you search online and read some of Anand's interviews, you know that Anand drove a $50,000 car when he was in high school and was making $55,000 at the age of 16 or 17 so he is DEFINITELY a millionaire right now.


    Majority of AnandTech's staff consider their work at AnandTech a full time job and they get paid close to $40K to $45K a year (at least some of them do).
  • Neo - Sunday, November 28, 2004 - link

    "I was in desperate need of a good drive so I called in a favor (or two) and borrowed something sporty to go for a little spin in for a bit one day - and it felt good."

    You love teasing us don't you? Either that or you're afraid of the implications in devulging your "financial status".

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