Unbelievable! It’s been a year since Seva Call first launched in DC. In fact, it’s so unbelievable that team members nearly forgot their own company anniversary — just more proof that time flies when you’re having fun… or working like crazy to build a business.
“I’m so proud of what the team has accomplished together so far, but my eyes are on the year ahead,” explained co-founder Gurpreet Singh, “We want to build more and deeper relationships to help even more people.”
Happy First Birthday Seva Call!
Gurpreet, the older of the two founding brothers and the brain behind the Seva Call software, was once just the small business owner of a computer repair company. Then, frustration over the costliness and inadequacies of searching and marketing online inspired him to create Seva Call. Now, he barely has time to marvel at just how far the start-up company has come.
“We’re still a scrappy, young start-up, but it feels like only yesterday that we operated out of a basement bedroom with spare computer hardware scaling the walls,” he said. “I can only imagine where we’ll be a year from now.”
Actually, 365 days and 518,185 placed calls later, the Seva Call team has been doing much more than imagining: they’ve been working! From new launches every week to press coverage, the team has left imagining to Mr. Roger’s neighborhood and is determined to make it happen in communities across the country. Seva Call’s anniversary is just another day when we work toward our goals.
“We’re like any one-year-old,” explained Employee #1 Rajesh Karyampudi. “If you’ve attended a kid’s first birthday party, you know that recognizing 365 days of postpartum life never garners much interest. Kids will accept any excuse to crawl and stumble about smacking balloons and smashing fists full of cake all over their cheeks. They just want to keep doing what they love!”
Sure, Seva Call may have grown faster than most one-year-olds (unless you’re talking about an alien spawn which impregnated its DC-based human host and then burst full-grown from the womb to immediately infest dozens of major cities with time-saving search help). I mean, it’s pretty hard to connect consumers to top-rated local businesses in seconds if you’ve barely grasped object permanence; and, before comparing businesses based on consumer reviews and other quality assurance indicators, you have to learn to read. In any case, the Seva Call team feels just like a toddler at his or her birthday party – getting to do what they love, helping more people, and building more connections is celebration enough for the Seva Call team.
“Speak for yourself,” said Seva Man. “I’m having the team code a new service category called, ‘Where Da Party At?’”
Sssshhh! Don’t remind Seva Man about the Party Planner category.
