One of the slides in the presentation deck that I use during a talk on Entrepreneurship is that ‘there has to be a higher purpose for creating companies than the acquisition of wealth’ for any entrepreneur. Before Tekriti happened, I never imagined how powerful can the ‘creation of a company’ be. As is the common wisdom, it affects not only your life but also affects the lives of people attached with it and their families. I didn’t have to wait 2 years to ‘know’ this but I guess I couldn’t have ’felt’ it if Tekriti hadn’t happened.
Let me ponder more of my thoughts here. In the last couple of months, I have gone in the introspection mode more than a few times – either because I was doing a lot of things but not able to focus enough on one or because I had to continue learning the art of ‘losing control’ as Tekriti grows or because I was not able to spend enough time on blogging, or may be because I was plain agitated at my incapability to increase the speed at which we were making progress. Don’t get me wrong – we are making enough progress and that will be evident by some announcements we make this year but, knowing where we want to reach eventually, no speed is really great.
Introspection is beautiful – it forces you to think about ‘Why’ and not just the ‘Hows’. So – I did ask myself again – why? Why am I doing this? Is it for one of the things: Name / Fame / Reputation / Money – what? Of course, I am not a saint to not think about these ‘earthly’ things – so it is not just because I want to benefit the mankind (it’s another discussion how Tekriti will even visibly help the mankind!) or whatever!!
Quite honestly – I don’t know the answer. I don’t know what keeps me in the office till quite late or forces me to continuously aspire to give my best or want to see not only myself but everybody at Tekriti successful. I don’t know why, for the first time in life, I am happy to see my name second to something – Tekriti. I really don’t know what gives me kick but what I know is money isn’t that. Money is important, lucrative and nice but just doesn’t have that power. Money just doesn’t give the kick!
Reminds me of something that somebody very wise told me once – I dont want money because I need it; I want to make money because I want to be considered ‘successful’.
