“I give you a front-row seat on the future especially in VR”I didn’t realise that time, it was in hindsight that Google was becoming popular and blogging was best way to get into Google. Google was disruptive technology, and blogging was a hook on it. So as Google became more and more important, blogging became more and more important. Of course, today there are many businesses around the world that do blogs. Back then when I started, there were fewer.You are not part of the modern world if you are not on Facebook. It is like saying you don’t have a telephone. I travel so much. Every taco truck in every city of the world has three icons on it-Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter. So if you are not on those three, you are not part of the modern world. Every taco truck owner knows you need to be on those three! I don’t care about startups that aim only for internal markets. So I know Flipkart, and I have friends who work there. I know it is an important company but it hasn’t come on my radar because it has not yet come out to be a global brand. And I am waiting for a global player from India.A good entrepreneur will know how to survive even if there is no food (money) or it is drying up. It’s getting harder to get money, to survive; but all good companies go through times like this.World only doesn’t have upsides, it has downsides too. As an entrepreneur, you have to go with both of them to become successful.
This is what technology evangelist, author, and blogger Robert Scoble’s introduction on his Facebook profile reads. And he aptly did. Last month in Mumbai, at the Click Asia Summit, the evangelist best known for his blog Scobleizer, spoke about how VR will change our perception of reality. Besides that, he also spoke to Inc42 about his journey from becoming a blogger to a VR enthusiast, how VR will affect our perception of reality, his expectations from the Indian startup ecosystem, and more.