10: From $2 Billion to an Internet Startup

Execepreneur: From Executive to Entrepreneur

English - July 29, 2015 07:00 - 20 minutes - 22.9 MB - ★★★★★ - 56 ratings
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Manpreet Singh is co-founder and President of TalkLocal, a company that connects users with service providers over the phone within minutes of their request. He started his first company in high school - a website that had 300K visitors per month. He then worked full-time at an investment management firm through college and his MBA, helping to grow it from $20 million to $2 billion under management, and now has launched TalkLocal.

Our two questions for Manpreet?

Why did he leave an investment management firm he had been at for twelve years (as Employee #1) to start an internet company?
How did he conceive of TalkLocal and get it off the ground?

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