Samkeet’s Blog

Consumers love the internet and the internet loves its consumers. What made the internet we use it today, as it is? Is it its multi-billion users or is it the platforms that make it? It’s a symbiotic relationship! As developers of the internet (literally and figuratively) we feel passionately about how we can leverage this beautiful infrastructure. As its users we only challenge its existing relationships, driving even more innovation. The term internet is used as an all encompassing term for the the physical infrastructure, the services it offers and the global behemoth of a platform that it is. It’s beautiful. Internet’s removal of physical barriers is driving creativity and empowering creation of niche products, services [6]. We should be nothing but excited for what lies ahead. Increasingly more day to day utilities are onboarding to the web. Being online is not just about having an internet connection and a web page. It's about moving critical functionalities like banking, edu...

Price of the Prix With the beginning of the 20201 Formula One season and the immaculate release of the Netflix series on the same, piqued my interest enough to dig into it. Specifically the incentives that keep it going. Formula 1, from what looks like a harmless way to challenge others in a motor race, it has now become a behemoth of its own kind. It is an expensive sport. Relative to most other sports that I can think of, the monetary barrier to entry is high. This begs the question.. How it started and why is it still going ?  As a sport, it has to have started with a group of passionate drivers/car manufacturers wanting to compete amongst themselves. As per the F1 history on ESPN F1 it started among a group of car manufacturers and individual entrants wanting to race. However a lot of the individual entrants later had to back out due to lack of funds to continue further.  Entertainment : Formula One as a mode of entertainment is no different from other sports. Entertainmen...

Driving by the Marine Blvd in San Francisco on a winter evening, watching the yellow shaded living spaces through the clear glass windows of the houses made me wonder how living in such a posh location must be like. The carefully tied drapes and the parts of dark wood furniture at least the parts I could see, seemed to me as an epitome of a luxurious lifestyle. This made me wonder, why does luxury seem so appealing in the first place. And i s luxury the privilege of exclusivity or price we pay for someone's time or both? Can luxury and exclusiveness be used interchangeably? So how could something exclusive be considered luxurious? Well there are two parts to it. Not everything exclusive is luxurious, but everything luxurious is exclusive or made to look that way. Why do we keep getting drawn to exclusive items?  As humans we like to be perceived as different from the herd. From the shoes we wear to that neatly crafted photo of them on social media. If everyone has the same taste or...