Mark Zuckerberg visit to the Indian Ashram
No matter who you are or
where you are from when you start your journey of entrepreneurship you always
tend to experience a positive change that will influence you to work harder.
World as such has lot of negative vibes when you strat your journey it may come
from family, friends, relatives or the usual negative sources whose job is just
to pull you down. Every entrepreneur has gone through this and you are on the
same path. And for most of them travel has been the big positive change and so
might be your case too.
This is a story of how
Mark Zuckerberg took some time off in his earlier days of driving Facebook to
reach the heights it has reached now. In a recent town hall interview with
Indian Prime minister Modi Mark Zuckerberg expressed the change that happened
when he visited India on the recommendation from his guru Late Steve Jobs. This
might have been a crucial point where Facebook success was taking over the
internet.
He said "Early on in our history when things weren't
really going well. we had hit a tough patch and a lot of people wanted to buy
Facebook. I went and I met with Steve Jobs and he said that to reconnect with
what I believed was the mission of the company, I should go visit this temple
in India that he had gone to early in the evolution of Apple, when he was
thinking about what he wanted his vision of the future to be," Zuckerberg explained to Narendra Modi.
This led to zuckerberg
flying down to India and when all are thinking
goa, Varanasi or Himalayas, he visited a place called
Panthnagar(65 kms from nainital).From where he drove to a ashram
Kainchi Dham Ashram to meet Neeb Karori Baba,in search of
spiritual guidance. Baba is no more but looks the
the guidance really worked well. Before you think of any stupid
comment on the Baba remember this is exactly where Steve Jobs had the Eureka
moment and also this place has a lot of celebrity fan following, you never know
how many other are busy buying real estate there now.
Ask Steve Jops or
ex-Google philanthropist Larry Brilliant who had become a good friend
of his.
Steve had not met the
Baba on his visit actually he had just visited the place and learnt about his
way o f life. But Larry had met him
“Every time I would try and meditate he would
distract me and frequently it was by throwing fruit,” Larry recalled.
We all take different
things from our experiences that can help us move forward. For Mark it was
important to connect the world in one place. And what helped him in his visit
is interesting from his words "so I went and I traveled for
almost a month, and seeing the people, seeing how people connected, and having
the opportunity to feel how much better the world could be if everyone had a
stronger ability to connect reinforced for me the importance of what we were
doing and that is something I've always remembered over the last 10 years as
we've built Facebook."
Here is the full interview, which is a must watch for various reasons.
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