Sushil Kumar Gupta

Making up another Google and Facebook is really hard. Believe me! Did you checked out the IPO the early quarter this year? How much LinkedIn got its evaluation? Or even earlier, what about facebook? Oh that’s alot of money!!! And I am not going to invest that much to compete with them. Check out the image below, it is from the NY Times 2006.

Okay, no kidding. Recently, Google launched Google+. You must be living in Amazon for last two months if you don’t know about it. From a random blog post, I came to know that Google has invested around 585 million USD to make that, which includes all of the cost. I am not going to explore how true that blog post was, but my point is, can we really invest that much money to make another Another Big Thing? No! We are peoples, not Google, damn. So, no more big things any more right? Lol! Google started with two peoples Larry Page and Sergey Brin, and they didn’t invested any comparable money that we  are seeing it has earned now. I assume you have seen the movie “The Social Network” by now. So, did Mark Elliot Zuckerberg invested any? Yeah, he did! He started the largest Social Network of the world, by asking 1,000 USD from his friend. And now compare it with what it is evaluated on IPO by today!

I guess you have got the point. Seriously, you don’t need a lot of money to start your own the Next Big Thing.

So, now comes the another point! Making the Another Big Thing is all about money, huh? No! It’s also about innovation. When Google guys started the Google as we see now, had no vision how they could make money from Google. They didn’t had any business model for what they were working on. Neither did Facebook had. They wanted to create something that will help people do things in easy way. The idea they had wasn’t even that unique. There was already Yahoo which had dominated the search on the web, and Myspace and Friendster as networking sites when Facebook started. They did these things, a little smarter way. Ranking pages with the incoming links was for Google, taking your entire social experience online was for Facebook. That’s all. They invented the Big Things we are using now and probably, a disaster might come if they suddenly went down, or vanished by some kinda black magic. Just kidding, they won’t go that easily, they are the Internet gaints, so called now!

And yes, I also want to talk a little more shit about startups. Excuse my foul language. Are you working for a company? Or wish you could get in some sort of company? Probably you may be thinking of Google HR Team or so of Facebook? I say don’t. If you have the skill, and the spirit of making things, go build on your own. Companies like Google and Facebook will pay you damn good money, only if you are a damn good hacker. But if you really are a hacker, damn the job, why the hell do you want them to build things? Build on your own. I know you talk about resources and shit. But, come on, once you get started, you’ll have them all. Enhance your skill. Go build a thing and change the way world works.