It had been a couple of months since we all joined our jobs after graduating from IIT Kanpur in 2005. The first couple of months after joining a job are almost the same of all - you seem to be earning way too much (specially comparing yourself with the spending power you used to have during the student days). The first month you are generally skeptic with your spending, but with money pouring in your account at the end of every month and watching how everyone else's spending habit, you slowly start to give in.
This honeymoon period lasted for about 3-4 months after which I realized that my brain was starting to wear out. The tiny miny bits of what I had put into my brain at IITK started becoming difficult to recall. With ample of time to kill after company, my fingers were itching for some coding. No business plans, no entrepreneurship, no extra money...just some coding practice.
Around the same time Pango (Pankaj Goyal), who was then in his first semester at IIM Bangalore, contacted me with kind of the same request that he had made to me 3-4 times during the final year at IITK - we need to start something. At IITK, none of our plans went beyond the idea stage and my laziness and wing bazi were the primary reasons for that. But this time I was also somewhat serious. We discussed many ideas over phone/email and finally we pin pointed to developing a placement office automation software. Actually Pango was quite aghast with the paper work involved in one of the most premier B-schools in India. So a rough plan was rolled out to automate that. At this point we didn't have any short/long term plans of what to do after we developed such kind of a software. Atleast my short term plan was fulfilled - I was once again slouching on my chair and hitting the keyboard hard.
As I remember best, within a month Pankaj visited Hyderabad and explained this idea to his wingmates - Kapil and Mr. X. They instantly bought this idea for almost the same reasons as mine :-)
So this was how the team got together!
To be continued...stay tuned :-)
-Aayush
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