21 Famous & Inspirational Quotes By "Deepak Ravindran" That Will Make Your Day & Achieve Big in Life

At 18, the story of Ravindran was not typical of the average student of Indian sciences. He underwent his admission examinations for medical and engineering and secured ranks. So he chose to engineer, so he liked computing.

Only a few years before at 15, he had found the Internet. He was enthralled by the international web while logged on via a call-up connection. He says, "I started to search and read about Steve Jobs and several more inspiring stories. I read how at an early age he began a corporation and stuck that notion”.

By the time Ravindran entered the Lal Bahadur Shastri Engineering College in Kasargod, 2005, he had resolved to use it as a fruitful soil to establish his own enterprise. In 2007, he accomplished it with three fellow students. The facts came to an end when his firm was selected by the accelerator program IIM-A, which provided an investment of Rs 3-5 lakh. The founders had to move to Ahmedabad, which meant that college and accelerator had to be chosen.

The fourth has been chosen. They went away from school. "Now, it's a vogue to drop out. However, back then, it was highly hazardous. The only reason we did this was that we were first sponsored, "Says Ravindran, saying that if things weren't working, they were worried about getting good placements.

For one month, Ravindran's families and friends thought that they had left college to get an MBA at IIM. "All fancy sounded," he said. It finally succeeded as they dropped out, and in only a few years they took over more than 100 students – first at Innoz and then at Lookup - as the biggest recruitment company of their previous engineering school.

At one point, Ravindran was co-founder of Twitter, Biz Stone. Ravindran opted to move to the U.S. for an Innoz Incubator Program after Innoz had plateaued in 2014, which the team failed to sell. He established a Q&A platform, Quora and Stone's Jelly, to compete with.

Stone was interested in acquiring Quest to expand the Asian market. But it was only 50,000 dollars a year, which fell well short of the $500,000 aim, for Ravindran. That is when he chose to wind down Quest and go back to India.

By the way, Stone's Jelly has also failed. In a Mashable interview, he even confessed today that the only thing the app keeps alive is a few loyal users. But a failure before this did not affect the prospects of Ravindran in April after his visit to Lookup.

1. We will see what is required for Lookup instead of necessarily using similar tech with prior experience.

2. We will surely bring the expertise to Lookup on a case-by-case basis. Lookup is like an assistant and we can bring in some of the elements of machine learning and AI (artificial intelligence) into this for a better experience.

3. Lookup has a long code, using which users can order things, but the whole focus is on messaging. Lookup will never integrate the voice-calling feature.

4. Innoz, Lookup and Quest are all in the same messaging space. Innoz was popularly called "Google Offline", as it could get any answer from the Internet with an SMS.

5. Quest was built to connect users to nearby people and get answers to questions of their interest, eliminating bots; in short, something like Quora for mobile phones.

6. Lookup is a mix of both, and uses machines as well as humans to interact with users for a lively experience.

7. People will come on the Internet and that's where Lookup is trying to be when the change happens. With phones like Freedom 251, anyone can get Internet on mobile phones.

8. We believe in chat and that's the way forward.

9. Lookup fulfils 300 orders per day with successful delivery, and the average price range is Rs 250. In case of food orders, the average price range goes up to Rs 400.

10. We are building trust with the users instead of letting bots handle tasks. The AI only helps identify the customers' concern and connect to relevant vendors.

11. Last year food was the most popular category for Lookup requests. Extensive advertisements of food start-ups and apps led many people to start using Lookup thinking it is a food app. Around 50 percent of the orders were related to food.

12. This year, there has been a spike in requests for medical supplies and groceries. Lookup covers all categories and is getting good response for spa and salon bookings as well.

13. We got a million users in around eight months, with majority coming from the younger age group. But offers and discounts from other apps pulled them away from Lookup.

14. Lookup is planning to introduce a hyper-local ad network in partnership with offline businesses so they can get their offers to customers.

15. The app will support pictures as banners and allow businesses to target users based on their interests next year.

16. The company is planning to change its annual subscription model for premium vendors to monthly subscriptions.

17. We are targeting Rs 50 lakh in total revenue for the current quarter.

18. Lookup's vendor database is growing continuously. We are aiming to reach a million vendors by the end of this year.

19. We haven't had any major downtime till now. We have a working time of 8 a.m. to midnight and have a reliable maintenance system.

20. We will take our time. We need to tackle the mass of the 80 percent of the market, which is mostly Android and iOS.

21. Lookup is a great name and we are proud to have it. There was no confusion with LinkedIn Lookup because Lookup has more users.