Go Dimensions: Young Brothers Rock The SAP Event In Bangalore

The youngest entrepreneurs were here at the SAP event to describe how motivation and ideas can drive you to hundreds of people who had gathered to learn from them. Shravan Kumaran and Sanjay Kumaran, 14 and 12 years of age respectively are the youngest entrepreneurs and brothers who founded Go Dimensions.

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Shravan holds the post as president and Sanjay is the CEO for the firm. The company was founded two years earlier and have a wide variety of games and apps spread across Apple App Store and Google play. They started off with the famous iOS game Catch Me Cop.

On Saturday, they stood before the 5,500 attendees at an SAP event in Bangalore, and talked about how to ideate, and draw up a business plan. "You should have a strong idea, self-confidence, a good business plan and know about sources of funding," said Sanjay with the confidence that you normally only see in much older people. And he then went on to ask: "Have you heard of dad funding?" The crowd roared.

Go Dimensions currently have 11 apps distributed across iOS and Android platforms, but they still enjoy the first game that they had developed from their bedroom in Chennai. Shravan is in class 9 and Sanjay in class 7 at the Vael's Billabong International High School in Chennai.

"We developed more than 150 test apps before releasing the first app, Catch Me Cop. That app was launched within a week of submission to Apple, and that was really exciting. Another app, Alphabet Board, got a rating of 5 on the app store," said Shravan, who credits Apple founder Steve Jobs for inspiring him to be what he is today. "Jobs is the big daddy of clean and intuitive user interfaces and who changed the way we communicate. And how can I forget his famous line, `Stay hungry, Stay foolish'," he said.

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The star status of the boys hasn't affected their studies and school going. Thanks to the loving parents who are strictly advising them to do regular schooling despite the fact that teachers are encouraging them to be at home and be more productive.

"Some of the teachers told them they would be more productive at home than coming to school," said their mother and former journalist Jyothi Lakshmi. But they are clear they will attend classes regularly, and also pursue their love for cricket and the keyboard. They admire Dhoni for his aggressive play. The boys credit their father Kumaran Surendran, director with anti-virus and security solutions company Symantec, for encouraging them to learn programming and play with gadgets.

Inputs from Times Of India

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- Unknown Updated at: Monday, September 30, 2013