Pradeep Kumar Sacitharan shares his journey from high school dropout to Ph.D to successful e-commerce business owner.
His resilience and persistence has carried him through many failures, including submitting 47 applications before getting accepted into Oxford and making over 250 cold calls to break into the e-commerce industry.
Learn how Pradeep handles rejection, finds opportunities, delegates and does cold outreach. He also explains the importance of having a low ego and why knowledge isn't necessarily power.
Show Notes:
2:49 - Pradeep shares his story
7:48 - How Pradeep cultivated his resilient mindset
12:02 - Identifying opportunities
16:50 - How Pradeep delegates to his team
20:00 - The best hires to make as a small company
21:45 - Breaking into the e-com industry
24:01 - Strategy for cold outreach
27:30 - Knowledge isn't power, applied leverage is power
28:45 - The importance of having no ego
30:00 - An e-com failure Pradeep experienced and what he learned
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