Meeting with the founders from 3 different companies

In my last post I told that I would be talking about time management skills in my next post. But I am postponing that as of now as todays meeting with the founders of Bharat Matrimony, Semantics Learning and Dexterity was just awesome. It may well prove to me the defining moment of my career. Murugavel Janakiraman, founder of Bharat Matrimony was the first to talk and there was so much to learn from him. Bharat Matrimony was a company that he had started, while working in the US. After his layoff, he devoted 100% of his time towards this business and this business has seen tremendous success and in general due his extreme hard work and devotion. He has now expanded it to different fields. One of the most important things which he had mentioned was the seemingly insignificant tasks like going out for movies with friends, we'll have to seek our parents approval but for significant tasks like marriage (he is after all the owner of Bharat Matrimony) and starting a business, we should not do according to what our parents say. If we have the passion for something we just have to go ahead and do it, whatever the idea may be, whatever the opinions of out family/friends may be because when we think ahead of our time, other people will just not know where the idea will take us. The next speaker was Pravin Shekar, co-founder of Dexterity and also a serial entrepreneur with intercontinental experiences. Pravin Shekar and I have similar interests, we both love travelling, we love photography, he is a serial entrepreneur, and I most probably be one too. He has been instrumental in building the KPO into a multi million dollar business unit. He is aware of the culture of Europe and how people work there. He is good in incubation and might later on venture out into a venture capital fund related company. He is also a silver medal rank holder from Indian Institute of Management (IIM). The next speaker was George Anand, Founder CEO of Semantics Learning. He was the youngest of the three speakers and again an alumnus from IIM. He spoke about his experiences and how important it is for entrepreneurs to be passionate about what they do and also at the same time they'll have to spend judiciously.

Overall, it has been a great day interacting with those high profile speakers. My next post will definitely be on time management!