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| Immigrant entrepreneur: | Gary Kurek |
| Company: | Kugar |
| Place of birth: | Canada |
| Employees: | 7 |
| Age started business: | 19 |
Show notes
Gary was raised on a bison ranch in Alberta, Canada. He was always a curious kid growing up and he found himself in the robotic industry when his teacher in school encouraged him to participate in the science fair at the age of 14.
Gary was self taught throughout his young adult life and actually never got a college degree. After his successes in the science fair where he invented a wheelchair device that can be used both like a walker and like a wheelchair device, he found himself in the heart of the startup industries, Silicon Valley.
He joined the Peter Thiel fellowship program at the age of 19 and received $100,000 on a 2 year program to create his company. Now his entrepreneurial ventures are focused on bringing manufacturing industries back to America.
Quotes by Gary
If you’re a young person who wants change the world and build a company, United States is best positioned for you to do that.
There’s a culture and the scale of funding that exists in Silicon Valley that no one else understands.
I have one life to live, and that life is uncertain, so why work on something you absolutely don’t want to do?
Being an entrepreneur is the most effective way to get things done.
It’s always good to have people around you that have ideally done it before.
Experience things for yourself.
It doesn’t have to be your dream idea from day one, it’s actually better that it’s not.
Sometimes you don’t know what you don’t know and you don’t get out of that unless you grow and experience and learn by doing.
Success provides short term fulfillment.
Failure, it hurts at the beginning it’s often a lesson that saves you from getting hurt in a bigger way down the line.
Failure is a lost battle, not a lost war.
Repeated success boosts ego and confidence in many in the wrong ways.
If you see a pathway of doing something, even if no one has done it, just do it.
I get really driven and excited when someone comes up to me and says what you are trying to do is impossible.
Chase the dream and go for it.
Building a company for me right now, is the greatest way for me to create an impact.
Every manufacturing job we bring back to the United States, 5-6 auxiliary jobs in other industries are automatically created as a result of that.
Don’t be afraid of being the first one to do something.
It’s wise to confront fear and proceed anyway.
Where to find Gary
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