What's the source of creativity? This has been a question that has
caused us to wonder so many times, especially when we had neither work, nor money, sometimes nothing at all. This question inadvertantly led us to a place far away from the city [we just had about enough money i.e. Rs. 50, out of which Rs. 30 for fuel & Rs. 20 for Chai & Sutta] and we used to ponder about this & other non-issues like saving the world from Backstreet Boys & other fungi of their ilk.
So there, we used to find solace among people who were devoid of their faux Tommy Hilfiger tees & had absolutely no intention to earn beyond their daily bread & quarter. The sense of detachment from the City gave us a fantastic perspective of things that mattered and those that didn't, actually more of the latter.
Just out of college & trying to come to terms with the fact that life's no more a picnic, it's actually a fuck-fest where everyone wants to exlpoit. Exploit us? No, we were way to insignificant to be exploited, but we used to feel sorry about the way things worked at that time in what we thought was 'Corporate Small Town' [Not sure if it exists even till date]. So ideas big & small were exchanged as if it would change the very face of human existance. Such a naive bunch.
But we used to battle it out over cutting chai, sometimes it was 'expresso' & on better days it was lager. B.Com grads from small towns, atleast in those pre-internet-revolution days, didn't have much clue about their options. So we did what we thought was the second best. We created our options and are thankful for that till date. In one such setting we arrived upon the name of our first venture, our entrepreneurial debut, our calling card in life & the biggest mistake which taught us so much about business that isn't even whispered in the IIM corridoors.
Till date we give utmost credit or blame to the 'cutting chai' that has been one constant in our journey till date, where we now stand as 'TeamXtreme'. Classic Milds & Kingfisher has been discounted here to keep it a politically correct blog. Not that we give a duck, but anyways. The next blog will be about an idea that we thought was the 'Matrix' among events. Complex, layered, difficult, ambitious and all that jazz. So what if we didn't make a penny out of it, it still is very dear to us at TeamXtreme.
Have a great weekend folks & keep coming back :)
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