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| Immigrant entrepreneur: | Prateek Joshi |
| Company: | Plutoshift |
| Place of birth: | India |
| Employees: | 35 |
Show notes
Prateek’s interest in machine learning/artificial intelligence came early on when he was growing up in India. Since there was lack of clean water where he grew up, he knew that there had to be a solution for this.
Every so often their family had to go to a place to get drinking water and do it over and over when supply was getting low. He started learning about water sources and machine learning early on and he grew such a passion for it.
When he came to USA at 27 years old to study Computer Vision on his Master’s program he knew this was only a beginning to his amazing journey.
He’s an author of 13 books all related to Python, machine learning and AI. He’s also taken the stage on TedX and has been featured on Forbes, 30 under 30 list.
Prateek is a young immigrant entrepreneur who manages his company of 35 employees and he’s thriving. In this episode he drops a lot of invaluable advice on entrepreneurship, growing his business, how it all started and raising capital.
Quotes by Prateek
To me, not doing it (opening up a business) is scarier.
Relationships matter a lot.
Our primary goal is to be useful to our customers and good things will happen.
Great people can make great things happen.
If you surround yourself with good people, they will bring more good people into your network.
Reading has been my primary way of learning and understanding and keeping up with my field.
Here (USA), I feel like the freedom to do what you love, freedom to pursue a path, it’s nice to see that and I value that a lot.
If you want something, just show up everyday and you will outlast all of them.
It is doable, but just hoping or expecting that it will be easy, it will just disappoint people and they give up.
If you have the right people around you, you can do much greater things than alone.
If somebody wants to do something, step one is to get out there and start talking to people.
If you think it’s doable or if you think it’s not doable you are more or less right.
Make sure that when you get someone on board, as long as you coach them and make sure that people are equipped to be part of your team.
Just do it!
Where to find Prateek
Plutoshift | LinkedIn | Prateek’s Blog
