On Meeting with Ramit Sethi & Randal Pinkett/Crew
On Thursday, I took a successful trip to Manhattan to meet with a young & successful serial entrepreneur and to watch a screening of the Apprentice with four of its cast members.
First, I had lunch with Ramit Sethi. The introduction was skillfully set up by Ben Casnocha with the following email cc'd to Ramit and I:
Michael and Ramit,
You are both extraordinary guys who should know each other.
Ramit - Michael is a friend of mine in NYC who's probably the same age as you and who's doing some very similar work around financial literacy/personal entrepreneurship and recently kicked off a speaking tour across college campuses. He also published a book, The Student Success Manifesto. See more at his blog http://successmanifesto.com/blogs/young-entrepreneur/.
Michael - Ramit Sethi is a successful entrepreneur, speaker, and soon to be author who writes the popular blog : http://www.iwillteachyoutoberich.com/. His personal site is: http://www.stanford.edu/~ramit//
You two have a lot of common. I hope your trip to China is going well!
Good luck.
Aloha,
Ben Casnocha
Founder, Comcate, Inc.
Transforming Local Governments' Customer Interactions http://www.comcate.com
e: ben@comcate.com / ben@casnocha.com
p: (415) 517-1547
w: http://www.casnocha.com
Ramit and I had a great hour and a half meeting exchanging ideas and contacts. I think we will see a lot of each other in the future.
After the meeting with Ramit, I went to Starbucks to kill time for a few hours. In the evening, my friend, Rich, and I went to a screening of the Apprentice at Stern NYU that my mentor and former professor, Jeffrey Robinson, set up. Professor Robinson is also best friends and business partners with Randal Pinkett, one of the favorite's of this season's Apprentice. Randal was at the screening along with four other cast members. It was a great time and it was interesting to see how the way people were depicted on the show was much different than they seemed to be in real life.
Randal and I met about a year ago. He is a hardcore entrepreneur as well as a Rhodes Scholar and MIT phd. Out of all the people I've ever met in business, his character is certainly one of the best and he is an inspiration for me.
Posted at November 13, 2005 11:01 AM
