Wednesday, September 5, 2007

So here I go....

I worked with a couple of startups during my graduation, and I realised what kind of life I wanted to live. I enjoyed working with startups and wanted to build one of my own. I tried all possible combinations, joining various groups of 5,4,3 and even 2. But it just wasn't working. Many times I could convince half of my family and many more times I could not even do that. Then I realised the problem. The problem was me. I was not prepared to walk down the path. I wanted to start, but not badly enough. Eventually I was forced to walk down the path I had decided not to take. I joined a company.

I joined a company big enough to make you feel big. You could enter office whenever you wanted, get a coffee at 1100, lunch at 1300, again a coffee at 1500, snacks at 1700, dinner at 2000. Then a cab to drop you back to home. I was getting a lot of comfort in writing a piece of code that was not going to make any difference in the way people were living their lives.

I sensed somehow that I did not belong to this system. I was not happy with the way things were going around me. A lot had to be done by someone. Why not me?

Thinking to find a solution was not simple. Being a part of such a cozy and comfortable system, you tend to sleep. I did not want to sleep. I decided to leave and then think. I decided to try out the last combination, a group of 1. I resigned.

It's rightly said that when you do some thing good, a lot of good things happen to you. I found two friends who had already resigned and were having the same vision. We founded maxHeap Technologies.

We were three, we were the team and we had started. We started to think about problems that people were facing. And after a lot of discussion and survey, the problem of telemarketing spam topped the list. Ban Karo was born.

We enjoyed building it, the night outs, the day blackouts. We enjoyed every byte of it. Because that is what life is all about.

6 comments:

Ankit said...

Hey dude!! saw your site, read all the news n stuff...must say its an awesome effort, n a fantastic start!! great goin...all d bst!!!

Sumit Jain said...

Thanks dude. Thanks for the appreciation & wishes. :)

nkjain said...

True, Nice, Good Luck,
I remember my days, still going very slow, slower than a snail...

Keep up the good work, you have the spirit

alok said...

Yeah ! I would say the time and effort put by anybody is the only way to keep up your dreams and see it turning around as the reality.

I have added you in my Gtalk.

Good luck

Ritesh Saurabh said...

i bet...you would a youngest millionaire of India. i visited your estart-up 'common floors' and i liked the way u r shaping the future of life-style.

Sumit Jain said...

Hi Ritesh. Thanks yaar for (over)appreciation :). Keep in touch.