When Sleaze and Greed takes over the game……

Recent IPL 6 has seen the incidence of Sleaze and greed taking over the game.

The game of cricket is now tainted and there is no charm left for its true sportsman spirit.

Lakhs of people in India watch IPL and they are disillusioned about these happenings.

Already there is lot of money in this T 20 games and it attracts world class players from all over the world.

The concept of IPL is great.

It gives a chance to young cricketers in India to seek an opportunity to play first class cricket for the country.

These games are similar to the famous world class Foot ball leagues in Europe and give a great opportunity to showcase the talents of our youngsters.

It was thought that to get a chance in Indian team was tough and almost impossible to get a place for players from smaller towns.

But IPL broke this myth and we saw a rise in talent from small cities.

The three players arrested so far are: Shreesanth, Ankeet Chavan, and Ajit Chandalia.

These players already get huge sums for playing in IPL.

Shreesanth is also the Indian Team player; there is no dearth of money.

What prompted these guys to stoop so low and fall in the snare of bookies?

These guys have indulged not only in match fixing but also have indulged in sleaze.

The lure of women, wine and money is well known but cricketers who already earn huge sums are getting trapped in such game is not understood.

They are the idols of millions of fans and by their act they have sabotaged the faith of millions.

Where is the cricket game heading?

The icing on the cake is the arrest of Chennai Super Kings owner Mr. Gurunath, who is now disowned by the team owners.

The next news  is that of Mr Raj Kundra who is the Rajastan Royals owner.

He claims he is into only betting but not fixing matches.

As the players and bookies and team owners are now arrested, it remains to be seen what is the extent of money involved in this, and how many more players and other personalities are involved in this muck.

We hope the authorities once for all seek the truth and punish the guilty.

Innovators are born.

Innovators are not necessarily educated.

One often wonders what makes an Innovator?

Is it formal education or training or sheer genius skills of the person concerned?

If you see the array of successful business men they are all not MBA’s but they had to struggle their way forward.

Take Steve Jobs who pioneered a host of innovations in Apple and was a highly successful business entrepreneur and he was a college dropout.

Take Bill Gates another successful business man and he too was a college dropout.

Take Marck Zuckerberg of Face Book, though he went to college but did not finish and he is the innovator of Face book.

I happened to read about David Karp, he has not finished school, is a school dropout.

This is an interesting story and that too of a successful guy who mastered the HTML script on his own.

He is the owner inventor of Tumblr.

He is just 26 years old now.

At the age of 14 years he gave up school and started working for an Apple service outlet,

He was working for Fred Siebert who found MTV Nickledom & Comedy Central.

In 2005 he found the Tumblrblog.

 This contained links to other blogs and sites of photography.

He made this site very user friendly, developed tools for the users to do things on this site.

It did not do well.

 In 2007 it attracted some venture funds and got its funding to propel intensive growth in this venture.

In 2010 the system crashed and he had to use Twitter to stay in touch with its customers.

He has revamped the business in 2010, by closing down story board its in-house content business.

Tumblr has today over 300 million users and gives opportunities to its users in variety of subjects, like blogs, photography etc,

This company has attracted many big players and now it is sold to Yahoo for 1.1 billion usd.

If one analyses the growth of this company since it started in 2005 the transformation is fantastic, and David has demonstrated that one needs skills and business acumen but you need not acquire these skills from business school.