Just read Fortune’s latest story “Is Mark Zuckerberg the next Bill Gates?” Josh Quittner says,

“Let’s say Mister Softie (Microsoft) wins, with a $1.5 billion buy in. Microsoft gets first dibs, not only on the nascent business, but on the nascent businessman: Mark Zuckerberg. Yes! Who better to succeed Bill Gates?

As every school child knows, the similarities are striking. Both men came from upper-middle class families and dropped out of Harvard to pursue their tech visions. Gates built a new platform (actually, two, if you count DOS and Windows) and Zuckerberg aims to create one now.”

Hell! It’s too early to make such a comparison, Josh Quittner! Agreed facebook is all around in the news today. Agreed facebook is massively capturing the ‘young adults drawn to social networking’ crowd. Agreed they JUST launched the Facebook platform and are soon looking to tap the huge advertising potential that their network offers. But hello, there’s no point in making comparisons right away; give Facebook some time to show their true prowess! Having said this, I also will agree that I’m a Facebook fan and tremendously respect Mark and co. for building a really snazzy networking site and attracting all the traffic that they are!

Bill Gates drummed up a “software industry” when there wasn’t one, made the “then only used by large companies” computer “personal” in the true sense (Remember Ken Olsen of digital computers said, “There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in his home” We know what happened to Digital next!). Let’s see what revolutionizing can Zuckerberg  do with his Facebook platform!

- Archit

Office was buzzing with activity as usual this evening. When suddenly, phones started ringing and Vishal’s mobile went on an overdrive. And before anyone of us could comprehend what’s happening, a team mate dashed in to the conference room where 3 of us work, and said, ‘We’re on Rediff…1st page!’ 

And then we checked and found Vishal’s interview in an article titled ‘A million dollar company built on failure.’ We knew an article on rediff.com was coming but never expected it to be titled this way! Extremely candid interview with our CEO, who answers the ‘How we started off’ questions with a tremendous zeal The article talks in depth about his journey from a Radio FM site webmaster to being the CEO of a 40 odd employee firm and seeks to motivate budding entrepreneurs, which I think it does, looking at the comments that started flowing in. 

You read interviews of the rich and famous, celebrities and businessmen; and one day you read an interview of this kid who had the passion to defy odds, fulfil his dream and go on to build an organization…and it truly makes you sit back and wonder…”If he could do it, why can’t I?” So let’s hope this article reaches out and inspires many like us who dream to achieve something special!

- Archit