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I had lunch with an old coworker today. Vikram started a company recently and is dealing with all sorts of common issues most startups encounter. As we were talking about how I met a lot of successful entrepreneurs in San Francisco lately who are only in their mid-20s and already making millions from their startups, we began to think what we were doing when we were 25.

Vikram and I graduated at the same year, and it was about the time when the first dotcom boom busted (yes, we are old). We are both driven and ambitious people, but during those years, a good job (both big corporations and startups) was hard to come by, let alone getting VC funding to start our own business. I remember during 2001-2004, I jumped around companies so often that I lost count on how many contract jobs I had taken until I landed a job at Google in early 2004. So did Vikram (and he is a Stanford grad). And the worst part was, we didn't have our US citizenship. We were more worried about having to leave the country than executing our badass business ideas. We took any job we could find just to get by.

Eight years later, we are still energetic and wanting to get our own ideas executed from the ground up. He started his and I am working on one and hopefully I will start my own someday.

What were you doing when you were 25?

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