“Sandeep Sood is globalization in action.” – the LA Times
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Sandeep Sood is founder & CEO of Monsoon Company, a web design/development firm based in Berkeley, CA and Mumbai, India.
He is co-founder and creative director of Badmash.tv, the online South Asian animation studio.
Sandeep writes and speaks about global collaboration, offering practical advice for getting things done with small, focused global teams.
He also serves on the board of ProjectAhimsa, a nonprofit dedicated to youth empowerment through music. He writes (sporadically) at IntentBlog and WeLikeItRaw.
Sandeep lives in Berkeley, California with all the other hippies.
Couple of good articles from the NY Times this weekend
Pixar Gambles on a Robot in Love
Andrew Stanton, who wrote and directed the film, doesn’t care if the kiddies want to hug Wall-E or not when the movie comes out on Friday. “I never think about the audience,” he said. “If someone gives me a marketing report, I throw it away.”
When the Comedy Is Lost in Translation
The worse news for Hollywood is that the new movies may be feeding a non-American tendency in once-dependable foreign markets like France and South Korea. “Pop culture used to be American pop culture,” said Roger Smith, the executive editor and a motion picture analyst at Global Media Intelligence, a research company. “But the rest of the world is figuring out how to make pop culture of its own.”
Bollywood searches for deals in Hollywood
After several good years, entertainment companies in India are finding that they have plenty of money but not enough places to spend it.
I recently wrote a piece for Forbes, a perspective on why the world is still round. Hopefully, the first paragraph convinces you it’s a worthy read (that’s all I’m allowed to post to my blog):
My apologies to Thomas Friedman. I was cursing out the window of a rental car in New Jersey when I realized that the world is still round.
