Posts Tagged ‘GRMTECH’

Living a dream, like Vikas Kedia

Wednesday, July 8th, 2009

This is posted is dedicted to my CEO Mr. Vikas Kedia

For me it’s just been over 4 years at Great Media Technologies Pvt. Ltd. And this being my first job I have learnt a lot here. I started as a novice and today I have enough knowledge and working experience to offer free consultation to my friends on how to make their website and market it. the journey had been a great one.

More importantly I have learnt dreaming – dreaming big and working hard to see the dream come true.

Vikas Kedia

And the credit goes to Vikas Kedia. I like his attitude towards work, patience and the way he actively chases dreams. You will hardly find much about him online. He works behind the curtain and successfully runs some of the biggest online communities. Let me tell something about Vikas Kedia.

He was exceptional all throughout his academic career. He got his bachelors degree from Sri Ram College of Commerce, New Delhi (One of India’s premier commerce colleges) and he completed his MBA from IIM- Bangalore in the year 2000. Vikas Kedia was amongst the top 5% in his batch of 201 students. He was offered a possible $100,000-a-year job by MMG, a New York based company that he declined.

Why?

He was dreaming about starting his own company and he did it right after passing out from IIM.

Although his first software company did start off well but soon found it in grey waters and had to be closed later. He describes this as the toughest period of this life. He went jobless and at the same time racked up some huge credit card debts.

When going gets tough, tough gets going.

But these events did not deter his determination and soon he found himself a decent job and hence became debt free soon.

He then started a debt based online community which in five years has more 150,000 registered members. Today, his company employs around 200 best and bubbling minds in the industry. And I wish I could talk about the yearly turnover of the company.

He is been our inspiration all the way.

Want to know more about Vikas Kedia? Read these:

Wikipedia; Rediff; Business Line; Wired;

My 36 Months with GRMTECH

Saturday, May 10th, 2008

Today I complete 3 years at GRMTECH. It’s been a long journey for me with everything to gain and nothing to lose.

3 years back I was one of those who did not know how to use Yahoo messenger and hated discussion on computers. But today I feel proud when some of my friends come and ask for my suggestions for there commercial websites. It really feels great.

If I look back at those 3 years, Grmtech has been more of an institute rather than a company for me (Thanks to Aji and Sourav Da).

Also, I will always cherish all the friends (would have loved to write all the names, but the list would be too long.) I made at GRMTECH.

It’s been a great experience to work with all the GRMTECH members. Looking forward to spending some more precious time with you guyz :)

Some Memorable Pics.

GRMTECH Annual Sports

Saturday, December 29th, 2007

28th December 2007 started off lil differently at our office. We were having our Annual Sports. I know Annual Sports of a company sounds a bit weird, but we have this every year somewhere in last week of December.

We started it at dot 4.45 with housie and as usual my luck did not favor me. I actually don’t remember when the last time I won something in housie.

After that started the main events and TT being the biggest of them all. Almost everybody participated in this (except the gals). First round results came out as expected but Quarter Finals saw some exciting matches and 2 major upsets. Amit and Arindam Da won against Aji and Vivek Sir (Both among the best TT players at our office) respectively. I played against Debasish Da and won quite easily (taking nothing away from deba da, he played well).

In semi finals I met Amit, his confidence was on a high, and after all he has reached this round after a convincing performance against Aji in quarters. I had some early hiccups but was soon in control and reached finals.

As expected the Finals was between Prashanta and me. Frankly I was nervous in the start and loosing first 3 consecutive points in game 1 did not help me. I had to quickly think something fast after all it was the finals. It was then that I changed my strategy and played defensive game (against my character). And won that game 21-16. I continued with the tactics in the second game also, I had won the finals in straight sets. Ah! I had won a TT tournament first time in my life. I remember reaching the finals a couple of time in my school days. But the feeling after the win was different and very special.

Honestly speaking Prashanta is a very good TT player and I have lost TT games against him many times. Winning against him made it even more special.

Here’s the video of the final match.