Success Made to Last Legends with FixMyCar's Founder Prashant Salla

FixMyCar was founded by Salla in 2018; he received an initial $250,000 in funding from an angel investor he met at a bar. He has since secured another $1.6 million in investor funding from Mucker Capital VC, Okapi VC, Marc Randolph (Netflix’s founding CEO), Richard Wolpert (Hello Tech’s Founder & CEO), John Kobs (ApartmentList.com’s founder & CEO) and other strategic investors. Salla came to America in 2012 from India, where he was working as a mechanic for $100/month while studying Mechanical Engineering in college. He earned his Master’s degree in Automotive Engineering from Clemson University, South Carolina. Later, he moved to the Detroit region to work as an Engineer, and has since flourished in the industry. On top of revolutionizing the auto repair industry, he is an inspiring example of a success story of a first generation immigrant. To learn more about FixMyCar, visit https://www.fixmycar.io/. Founded by Prashant Salla, FixMyCar is a managed marketplace that is revolutionizing the automotive repair industry by sending mobile mechanics to your house. Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/success-made-to-last-legends--4302039/support.