In this episode of Founders in L.I.T.E, Helen Wang sits down with Pravardh Mishra, a 19-year-old UCSD student whose entrepreneurial journey started with bad grades and a desire to stand out. From landing an unpaid internship in 10th grade and getting his business unit acquired by Oracle, to co-founding a biodegradable fuel additive company with a 64-year-old British oil-and-gas veteran and scaling it across 4 continents, Pravardh has jam packed several lifetimes of experience

Founding his company at just 17 years old, Andre Lokuszta dives into his journey to becoming CEO of Netcast Marketing and how he carved out his own niche in a rapidly changing market. In this insightful interview with host Katie Cho, he discusses the highs and lows of entrepreneurship and how he uses AI to stay on the edge of innovation.

In this episode, our founder Helen Wang sits down with her former student Katie Cho to reflect on the origins of Oceanside Perspective. After leaving a career in high tech, Helen became a professor at University of California, San Diego - Rady School of Management. But just a few months after she began her entrepreneurial journey, she had to step back from leading OP to battle an aggressive cancer diagnosis. Watch to hear the story behind OP.