I represented "Adobe" at "Yahoo" Bangalore...

It was a moment of pride for me. Probably for the first time in my professional career. I am not a Business Analyst or an IIM Grad (or who has completed an MBA from a premium institute) involved into business decisions and deals. This was one of very niche and early opportunity for me here in the Adobe Flex/AIR team.

This happened two weeks ago. Ramesh (is a Sr. Computer Scientist in my team) heading the Evangelist activities related to the Platform Products of Adobe (Flex / AIR, primarily). Past few weeks i have been involved in developing a next generation product web 2.0 with Srini. Ramesh Called me and said 'hey arun, are u ready for the demo for Yahoo.. we are going after lunch'.. Umm.. yeah not yet but sure wouldnt take much time too.

Ramesh had his contacts spread and got the right audience. I and Ramesh Visited the Yahoo, Bangalore office in EGL. We were meeting with Aparna (New Businesses and partnerships manager) and Prashant (Yahoo-Cricket product manager).

It was a pride moment for me to "Sell a business by demoing a cool application that can impress most in this domain"... I had an opportunity to speak to sell and get the business partnership done. Of course, ramesh was there to handle the business related discussion in-depth but i was representing the Technical head role for their requirements and it went all well and i am very excited about it for the whole of the day. I would definitely remember it for sure.