Prasam Mittal is an Indian businessman, famous for being the founder of Gurugram Business School, Gurgaon.
Wiki/Biography
Pratham Mittal was born in 1991 in Jalandhar, Punjab (age 32 in 2023). He was born and brought up in Jalandhar, where his family founded the famous Lovely Sweets store in Punjab. He attended Doon Public School, Dehradun. He studied Development Economics and International Development at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology in Kumasi, Ghana, Chinese Language and Literature at Peking University in China, and International Relations and Affairs at the London School of Economics and Political Science, where he received a BA, Systems Science, Political Science, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, United States. He is the school’s gold medalist in the 50-meter backstroke. He speaks English, Mandarin, Chinese, German and Punjabi fluently. While at Penn, he participated in events and clubs such as the Wharton Startup Program, Phi Kappa Psi, PennSID, International Student Advisory Council, Hack the Change, and Startup Weekend.
appearance
Height (approximately): 6′0″
Hair color: black
Eye color: black
family
Parents and siblings
Pratham’s father, Ashok Kumar Mittal, is the principal of Lovely Professional University in Phagwara, Punjab. His mother’s name is Rashmi Mittal, who is the vice-chancellor of Lovely Professional University. His sister’s name is Srishti Mittal.
Prasam Mittal and family
Profession
grown up
In 2016, as he was preparing to graduate, he founded Outgrow in New York with his partner Randy Rayess. Outgrow is a growth marketing platform that enables marketers to build interactive content and tools that increase customer engagement and drive demand generation without the need for custom design or development. Olathom said in an interview that his company has become the largest public opinion polling technology company in the world, with more than 4,000 publications and customers including the New York Times and The Guardian. He started the company because when he was working as a developer, many clients who didn’t have good outsourcing experience came to him to correct their mistakes. While working for these clients, he realized that the industry lacked significant information asymmetries and therefore the clients were encountering the wrong developers. He began working to provide a trusted network of vetted developers and a transparent portfolio to help companies select the right developers.
netta app
Pratham developed the Neta app in 2018. The app allows voters to rate their elected representatives at the state and central levels. The app allows the public to vote for political leaders in power and it serves as a feedback mechanism for political leaders. The app is available on Android and iOS platforms. The idea of this app gained traction during the February 2018 polls in Ajmer and Alwar constituencies in Rajasthan. It was also used in the May 2018 Karnataka Assembly elections. According to him, he started the app because he didn’t like politicians in India. He believed that leaders would not respond to the public after being elected. He thinks things might improve if politicians were rated like Uber drivers and restaurants. In an interview, he talked about the app and said,
different from [food aggregator] We believe that Zomato politicians don’t really care about their results. What they care about is the number of votes they get. So we are following this model now. The vote represents the evaluation a politician will receive. However, the company is planning to launch another tool that will allow users to express their approval of the government. As a poll, this is conducted on a five-point scale. “
Neta application by Pratham Mittal
Master Alliance
In August 2020, he founded Master’s Union Business School in Gurgaon. The educational institution offers courses taught by CXOs from Morgan Stanley, Tata, Standard Chartered Bank, Google, Twitter, Reliance and Razorpay. Pratham claims that his institute offers the same internship opportunities as IIM Ahmedabad. He also claimed that students of the institute have an average GMAT of 715+, come from backgrounds such as IITs and NITs, and have 3 years of work experience in GS, ZS, Fractal and BCG. In an interview, he talked about his entrepreneurial experience and said:
We wanted to do something similar. Nearly every Fortune 500 company is located within a 2-mile radius of us and the airport is only 9 minutes away. If we want practitioners to come in and teach, that’s what matters. “
Prasam Mittal Business School Masters Alliance
In 2022, KPMG International Ltd. India, in partnership with its business school Masters’ Union, launched a one-year part-time program in applied finance to provide internship opportunities for BCom, BBA and MBA students to help them find finance jobs. The course has been designed by KPMG and the program is taught by its partners and directors. The collaboration serves as a way to enhance employability and fill gaps in the university’s BBA and BCom courses. In an interview, he spoke about this and said:
Although jobs in finance are growing day by day, there is concern that recent graduates are not qualified for these jobs due to learning gaps. We are pleased to partner with KPMG India to offer applied finance courses that will help students, fresh graduates and early professionals bridge these gaps and become industry-ready. “
Awards
- 2018: His company Outgrow ranked No. 1 on the New York B2B Tech rankings
Pratham Mittal’s company Outgrow ranks No. 1 on New York’s B2B tech rankings
- 2018: Sifery Top Software Vendor of the Year Best Supplier Award
Pratham Mittal wins Best Supplier Award
Facts/Trivia
- In 2013, he was named one of the top 20 startups in Philadelphia by Philadelphia Magazine.
- While he was studying in college, he came up with the idea of starting a business school, which he was able to establish in India thanks to his connections with peers and professors.
- In July 2021, he became a partner of the investment company 606 Ventures.
- After returning to India, he helped his parents transform the LPU run by his parents. When he visited universities, he felt the need for innovative learning in universities. After discussing the changes with parents, he introduced departments such as education technology initiatives, new investments, intellectual property and resource commercialization, which mainly focus on practicality and are gradually developing into new innovation centers for education.
- According to him, 30% of his time is spent on managing the team and current projects, 30% on business calls or meetings, 20% on research and exploration, and 20% on other operational work.
- In an interview, he said that he founded a company when he was in college and had the greed to succeed easily. According to him, he was very excited about the adventure at first, but after a while, he lost interest. When his company failed, he realized that building a startup was difficult and he had to work at it.
- During the entrepreneurial process, he learned a lot by reading about the industry and target market. He used to get innovative ideas by comparing completely unrelated things. He revealed in an interview that he got some of his best ideas from reading political journals.
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