Last Saturday, Kaskus celebrates its 11th birthday which they announced at our own SparxUp Awards 2010 Awarding Night event. Both CEO, Ken Lawadinata and founding CTO Andrew Darwis came to the event and tell a bit about how Kaskus started and its plans to the future now that the industry has grown a lot better than the time Kaskus was started.

Andrew started Kaskus while studying at Seattle with his two friends Ronald and Budi, although the last two founders left a few years later leaving Darwis with the unfortunate task of maintaining the forum and paying for servers. It was intended to be a forum for Indonesian students studying in the US. For a few years the forum gained significant number of loyal followers and members, and took shape into one of the biggest porn board for Indonesian internet users. When Indonesian government released the anti-porn policy in 2008, Darwis knew he would have to shut down the porn sub-forum and it was a hard decision leaving users in rage and threatening leaving Kaskus for good.

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Hey, tidak terasa sudah dua tahun saya memulai sebuah blog kecil yang saya namakan DailySocial ini. Bermula dari perkenalan saya dengan beberapa founder perusahaan internet, saya memutuskan untuk membuat sebuah blog yang secara spesifik mengulas mengenai orang-orang hebat ini.

Kini dua tahun kemudian, dan 1500 blog post kemudian, DailySocial telah tumbuh menjadi sebuah komunitas tempat para founder, investor dan startup enthusiasts berkumpul dan keep themselves updated with tech news. Setahun belakangan istilah “startup” sudah tidak lagi asing terdengar di telinga orang-orang di industri teknologi Indonesia, media besar pun mulai menyatakan dukungannya terhadap startup indonesia dengan kekuatan informasi yang dimilikinya. DailySocial bangga bisa menjadi bagian dari tumbuhnya kekuatan internet di Indonesia.

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