Avijeet Sachdev

I love spending time on the computer, learning about social media, film, photography, coding, all that stuff, but most people can’t believe that I know this much. They think, oh you’ll be someone huge in the future, just because I know my way around a computer. 

Sure, that’s awesome, but you know what? That’s never enough. Mark Zuckerberg, I’m sure you’re sick of hearing about him but listen, created an analyzer for your MP3 players, that allow you to be recommended, by this software, of what songs you should listen to. How old was he at the time? Between 16-19. And this is before YouTube giving you tutorials on coding, or even before coding for websites was “in”. Before all of this, when you thought computer, you most likely thought of the Steve Jobs/Bill Gates rivalry. That’s insane!

That young, barely any resources, how did he do it? I look up to him for that face, that’s absolutely mind-blowing. So no, I don’t truly accept compliments from people that say, “Oh man, you’ll be someone big in the future,” because I installed Google Chrome for them, or, “You’ll be a billionaire”, for making a functional blog. I even get compliments for websites I’ve created, or businesses I’ve helped (by giving them web presence, etc.), but I can’t truly accept them. Why? They are child’s play. I can create a blog within about 30 seconds, make it phenomenal within a day. Not hard. I’ll take compliments when I’ve put my mind to something, for days, possibly months, risked sleep for, school for, social life for, and whatever else. I’ll take compliments when I’ve truly created a masterpiece, Zuckerberg has his Facebook, Jobs has his Apple, I want my thing. 

Another thing, money isn’t an object. Look at most of the CEO’s on Silicon Valley, the last thing they care about is money. Sure, I’d love to make money, but it isn’t what I want of my masterpiece. I want it to be popular, I want it to be something people are talking about, I want it to be something people are using. Money can come and go, I care for the product, not the profit (it’s not a priority).