About Me

GOOD OLD DAYS

Beautiful Bangladesh is a small country in South Asia & that’s where I am from.

 Being an only child in a broken family doesn’t help – but I have had an awesome life and things turned out pretty okay.

I was born on Oct 25th in 2002 (though all my certs say its 2003). I went to a decent school called Mamtaz Fakir High School, then joined a college called Sristy College . I lived with my mom for the entirety who loves me to death.

Tanjil Sarkar

 Being an only child – I received all the love I could from my immediate and extended family which made me soft & vulnerable but If I had to do it all over again, I don’t think I would have changed anything.

 I had a lot of friends when I was in school – and if given a chance, those are the days I would want back. Playing cricket without a bit of worry all day, reading storybooks in the dark damaging your eyes, good old days.

 I was entrepreneurial from the school days – the first business, as I remember was renting books to friends for pocket money which I started with a friend.

 There’s a saying – How come you don’t know you are in the good old days, when you are in the good old days.

 I am getting old, nostalgic and I think about that every day now.

 

What is my goal

I often ask myself this very question.

Why am I doing what I am doing?

Is it because of the money?

– Well, I got enough to live a lifetime (I am not a super materialistic person and I can’t spend money, nor do I like doing it)

Is it because of the legacy?

– Do you know the name of your great great grandfather? You don’t. Unless you help build a country, run a revolution or do something extra ordinary like Musk sending people to Mars – I think you will be irrelevant within a few generations.

The Bezos of the world, the Zuckerberg – most people will probably not remember them in 300 years time.

What’s the point then?

Why work? Why create content? Why run an agency? Why do anything at all? ……

Honestly, I don’t know….. I wish I did.

I just like the game of building businesses, creation and distribution of wealth and most of it, I like to make people empowered and install vision in them that they never knew they needed.

The biggest joy is when you know your work is helping someone put food on the table.

The 2nd biggest joy is to have Bhelpuri (a traditional Bangladeshi street food).