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Jean Galea and Donnacha MacGloinn, standing in for James Laws this week, go deep into the fascinating story of Akshat Choudhary, founder and CEO of blogvault.net, a WordPress backup service and the most successful WordPress-related business in Bangalore, the Silicon Valley of India. Among the topics covered in this free-wheeling, wide-ranging discussion: How Akshat started off in WordPress, what he did before and his future plans. How, as a lone founder with no previous experience of WordPress, he grew BlogVault to a company of 13. How he managed to juggle a demanding day job with working on his WordPress startup every evening. What he doesn’t like about the name of his company. How it felt when a massive competitor launched a very similarly-named product just a week after his, but how it turned out to be a good thing. How to deal with the pressure of being a small fish in a rapidly-changing business environment. Why it is worth doubling down on the WordPress market. The quality of Internet