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IPL

Suren — Sat, 07 Apr 2012 15:10:05 +0000

Disclaimer: Not an original thought.

Quote from the movie “The Gladiator” -

I think he knows what Rome is. Rome is the mob. Conjure magic for them and they’ll be distracted. Take away their freedom and still they’ll roar. The beating heart of Rome is not the marble of the senate, it’s the sand of the coliseum. He’ll bring them death – and they will love him for it.

Can you think of anything contemporary to this? No?

How about the Indian Premier League?

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Attitude

Suren — Wed, 07 Mar 2012 20:22:05 +0000

There is significant implications to what people say or do. It shows a lot of their attitude. It shows what some people are made of. Naturally, some people are just awesome. An I am lucky to have many such people around me.

I was asking for endorsements from ex-colleagues from Linkedin. One of them wrote back –

lol.. you won’t need it.. trust me

He is one of those awesome people. And with that message, I felt awesome too.

Dedicated to the Last Row of Sun Lab.

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Boundaries

Suren — Wed, 15 Feb 2012 01:36:54 +0000

You think you are someone. You think you know your boundaries – the line that divides the things that you would do and those you wouldn’t. You think you know what you are capable of. And then you think you know the same things about people close to you. You are sure of it. You think you couldn’t be so far from truth.

Do a startup. You realize you are not that someone you thought you were. It was just a mask you were comfortable wearing. The boundaries were just lines that you drew.

This video applies to you too. Not just the world.

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Easier said than done

Suren — Sun, 22 Jan 2012 17:42:15 +0000

“Don’t ever let someone tell you that you can’t do something. Not even me. You got a dream, you gotta protect it. When people can’t
do something themselves, they’re gonna tell you that you can’t do it. You want something, go get it. Period.”

Movie quote from The Pursuit of Happiness

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Goyaka labs

Suren — Mon, 09 Jan 2012 19:19:03 +0000

I had a very eventful and thrilling 6 month ride at InterviewStreet. Working at InterviewStreet was a very big learning experience. I was constantly found wanting when it came to doing almost anything and it was possibly one of the most challenging, demanding and enriching phases of my career.

But I also figured out, that I wanted few different things in life than being an early employee, So decided to leave and start up on my own with Alagu and Rajagopal . Enter Goyaka labs.

As a warmup exercise, we built a Flickr to Facebook photo migration tool. Luckily, we got covered by ZDnet, GigaOM and few other magazines. We had a fun time scaling our service to handle about 500K photosand 15000 albums within a week. Something we never imagined ourselves. What actually happened was this.

We have finished a Picasa to Facebook version as well. Its still unlaunched because of a Facebook bug that happens because of volume of photo uploads.

Thanks for all the folks who tried out and gave us feedback.

The journey has just begun. Wish us luck!

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