My sojourn at Gameshastra has been quite a roller coaster ride. Trust me when I say that. When I joined Gameshastra, I joined as the executive assistant to the CEO. Soon, I was given the responsibility of managing marketing. In about first six month’s time, I would have met about 3-4 investors and made presentation on various business plans my boss came up with. As it happens in all businesses, some deals worked out some dint. A few dint work out when almost 80 % work on the plan was over. It hurts when you see your several sleepless nights working on the plan, getting wasted. Wasted…? Well not entirely, for the lessons learnt are invaluable.

My first marketing assignment was to brand the gaming lounge at our office and to market it to make people come and play at the lounge. One of the major challenges to work in a start up is to work on a very tight budget with minimal resources to get your work done. This is where the challenge lies. It feels like solving one of your problems of optimization where you have to optimize all your resources your strategist mind, your execution capabilities, your operational skills. Interesting isn’t it?

One fine day our finance controller decided to leave. Soon, I was handling finance along with marketing and strategy.

Quite recently, we have launched Gameshastra University. They say when you are pushed you realize your potential. I realized my potential when I also started working on the website and marketing collaterals without the help of any ad agency. The budgets were tight, time was short and I had no other option but to do it myself. Right from the conceptualization, copy, creative work to organizing promotional events: It surely was an exciting ride.

To talk of the team, it’s a bunch of young professionals very well known in their fields. One common theme binds them: passion for games. And yes one of the perks of the job: the fantastic gaming lounge with access to the latest consoles and latest games.

Today, I am a multitasker extraordinaire. I am very confident that I can own and operate my own company without any problem with the breadth and depth of learnings acquired at Gameshastra. You can consider yourself an outstanding problem solver if you could figure out how many departments I handle.

To sum up my experience at Gameshastra I would say, here unlike other companies, you are pushed into the sea to make you learn swimming. You would be given all assistance so that you don’t drown. You would be pushed through the tides high and low; nevertheless this swim would be worth a lifetime!