Anand Chowdhary

Major milestones and meaningful moments that have shaped my personal and professional journey.

Music

Gracie Abrams
Sabrina Carpenter
Maisie Peters
Taylor Swift
Claire Rosinkranz

Coding time

2 hours, 51 minutes
Aug 22
1 hour, 13 minutes
Aug 23
1 hour, 46 minutes
Aug 24
2 hours, 49 minutes
Aug 25
6 hours, 3 minutes
Aug 26
6 hours, 59 minutes
Aug 27

Sleep

9 hours, 10 minutes
Sep 27
9 hours, 50 minutes
Sep 28
8 hours, 25 minutes
Sep 29
8 hours, 40 minutes
Sep 30
6 hours, 13 minutes
Oct 1
1 hour, 35 minutes
Oct 2

Steps

1,068 steps
Jan 26
1,258 steps
Jan 27
1,355 steps
Feb 24
3,475 steps
Mar 7
1,732 steps
Mar 26
712 steps
Apr 6

Life events

2020s

Bought a house

January 18, 2024

Sukriti and I bought our first house in Utrecht, the Netherlands.

Got married

January 21, 2023

From January 19 to 21, Sukriti and I got married in Delhi-NCR, India.

Got engaged

June 1, 2022

I surprised Sukriti with a trip to Paris and asked her to marry me in front of the Eiffel Tower.

Became a Y Combinator alum

June 30, 2021

Pabio was part of Y Combinator's S21 batch, being one of the first Swiss companies to be funded by YC. I was the third ever from my university to be part of YC and we raised a $2.2 million seed round after the batch.

Graduated from University of Twente

July 4, 2020

Earned a BSc degree in Creative Technology, an interdisciplinary engineering and design program from the Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Science, with specialization in smart technology and extra credits (Honors program in Science). My bachelor thesis on Email-based Intelligent Virtual Assistants under Dr. J. Zwiers was graded 9/10 and nominated for the Bachelor Award.

Co-founded Pabio

July 1, 2020

Pabio offers rent-to-own furniture with personalized interior design. Carlo Badini and I co-founded Pabio after getting to know each other over a period of a few months remotely during the COVID-19 pandemic.

2010s

Studied at Santa Clara University

December 4, 2019

I was the first student in my program to study for a semester at Santa Clara University in Silicon Valley as part of the Global Engineering Education Exchange (Global E3). I was a recipient of the Twente Mobility Fund Scholarship and my coursework consisted of computer graphics, venture capital, marketing, and typography.

Co-founded Oswald Labs

August 5, 2016

Oswald Labs is an accessibility technology company that builds products for people with disabilities, like blind-friendly smartphone and dyslexia-friendly reading apps.

Finished high school

March 26, 2016

Graduated from The Mother's International School while receiving the Dharamveer Gajra Memorial Award for Positive Work in the Field of Information Technology and the Ratan Lal Lahoti Memorial Award for Topper in English (98%, CBSE SSCE). I was also President of MINET (technology Club), and a member of Impulse (physics club), Navchetna (yearbook editorial board), and MISMUN (Model United Nations).

Co-founded Class Rebels

February 8, 2014

Class Rebels is an ed-tech startup I co-founded with Kunj Khurana and Sagar Chandna which built a social education platform and collaborative virtual library.

2000s

Published my first website

October 19, 2008

In the summer of 2008, I learned how to make websites using Macromedia Dreamweaver and the earliest website I made that is still available on the Internet Archive is from October 2008.

Created a Gmail account

January 1, 2008

I created my first Google account with access to Gmail on the first day of 2008, a few days after I turned 10, which I still use to this day.

1990s