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1. 

   Mandar Joshi January 21, 2013, 10:58 am

   He is the guy who broke my sleep, He is the guy who woke me up by throwing a splash of cold water of reality 🙂 Thanks Alok for being there and helping us to first understand and realise our dreams. I have listen to you quiet a good number of times, sometimes live some time on internet and I must say this is one of your rarest rare appearance 🙂 Stay UnComfortable, Stay hungry and stay Foolish thats the Mantra !!!!!!

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   Pradeep Chaudhary January 22, 2013, 10:18 am

   Awesome. Always inspiring. Would love to get the complete Video.

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   Siddarth Chaturvedi January 22, 2013, 11:00 am

   plz someone post the link of complete video.

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   asha chaudhry January 22, 2013, 11:06 am

   siddharth – i’m afraid only 5 vids of alok’s talk were uploaded by ima conclave and they’ve been posted here.

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   Abhishek Bharadwaj January 22, 2013, 11:42 am

   The last video reminds me of Henry Ford, who once said,”If I had asked consumers, I would have only been searching for faster horses”. 

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   asha chaudhry January 23, 2013, 11:00 am

   those of you who have enjoyed the belt story might also like to read this – https://www.therodinhoods.com/forum/topics/why-i-don-t-care-about-what-i-wear-why-i-open-doors-for-people

   Why I don’t care about what I wear. Why I open doors for people. 

   Story 1 – What I wear. 

   In or around 2007, one of our Companies – Games2win was growing fast and needed VC money.

   Neeraj Arora of Google Ventures was interested in meeting me and I went for a meeting with Neeraj and with Thota Ranganath – Founder of Mobile2win (China).

   I think it was the Mumbai summer time.

   I was dressed in a shirt and formal trousers and had a jacket on. The meeting was at the Grand Hyatt Vakola. Ranga was wearing a formal shirt (I think with cufflinks) and trousers.

   

   We walked towards that sofa area outside the coffee shop and spotted Neeraj sitting with someone in the coffee shop. The only sofa we got to sit on was the one next opposite the table so we sat there. Immediately I recognized that the person sitting with Neeraj Arora was Mahesh Murthy (of Mahesh Murthy fame; Pinstorm, etc). I said ‘Hi’ to him. 

   Once we were settled, Ranga whispered to me – “Alok, do you know that person sitting next to Neeraj?” 

   I said, “Yup – well. He is MM”. And I explained MM’s background to Ranga.

   Ranga said, “Alok, look at what he is wearing”.

   I looked and noticed that Mahesh was wearing a round neck T-Shirt that was either Navy or Black in color. It was faded and its collar was slightly wonky. It has the words “NASA” written in it in white on the right side… the “N” of Nasa was completely faded and was barely visible.

   Neeraj seemed captivated by his conversation.

   I was sweating in my Jacket and shirt and my mind was on my clothes and not on my pitch.

   Till I saw Mahesh Murthy dressed the way he was.

   That’s when I realized that it’s not what you wear to work – it’s what you what you DO that matters.

   

   Thank you Mahesh Murthy!

   (Ps – I told this story to MM last month when we met at MICA for a conference – he was shocked).

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   Rupesh Agarwal January 24, 2013, 6:11 am

   WOW…Thanks Alok!!!

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   Anirudh B Balotiaa January 25, 2013, 9:01 am

   Any link for the complete video instead of multiple small snippets?

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   asha chaudhry January 25, 2013, 9:04 am

   no anirudh, i’m afraid there isn’t any 🙁

   trust me, i would’ve been the happiest person to embed one single complete video!!!

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    Abhi5hek Gite January 25, 2013, 9:29 am

    Absolutely from the gut and hitting the guts of the listeners as well …. Loved the opening … I AM NOBODY, but I am a blessed entrepreneur !!!

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    Alok Rodinhood Kejriwal January 25, 2013, 9:42 am

    :-)))))

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    Suresh Mansharamani January 25, 2013, 10:44 am

    AWESOME  

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    Suresh Mansharamani January 25, 2013, 10:45 am

    AWESOME

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    Nishith Anshu January 25, 2013, 2:49 pm

    @Alok, was hearing you for the first time.

    Its Awesome…. Inspiring… nice Mantras…

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    Anirudh B Balotiaa January 28, 2013, 8:48 am

    Was going through the pain of watching snippets in chunks of 3 mins, worst thing is there is no sync between say part7 and part8…conversation is lost in the cut…IMA has done a shoddy job of putting this on you tube! 🙁

    Anyways, something is better than nothing though…

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    Milan Bavishi January 30, 2013, 6:15 am

    “I don’t know”. thats where it all starts.

    super!  Thank you Alok!!  🙂

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