Founder of Tetr College of Trade and Masters’ Union, Pratham Mittal, has joined Season 5 of Shark Tank India for a Campus Special. After admitting to feeling ‘imposter syndrome’ about it in a LinkedIn post, the businessman tells Hindustan Times in an interview that ‘despite the hassle’ that incorporates being on tv, he notion it became once rate it to champion student entrepreneurship.
“You would’t be overtly extreme of anyone so young. Even within the occasion that they model mistakes, they might perhaps also simply quiet be knowledgeable it’s k as a change of inserting them down,” he tells us. Talking to HT over Zoom from Andaman, Pratham talks about every thing from why he’s hooked in to student entrepreneurship to his friendship with co-shark Aman Gupta, the co-founder of boAt Standard of living, teasing which diverse sharks on the demonstrate he will get alongside with doubtlessly the most, and extra.
Arrangement is to encourage, in desire to criticise
Request Pratham how he went from running colleges to touchdown his gig on Shark Tank India 5, and he chalks all of it of the scheme down to ‘grand of the enterprise community is similar’. But he additionally looks intelligent for what he’s about to rob on. “I think I’ll whisper one thing controversial,” he smiles, in conjunction with, “I feel that truth TV might perhaps be very ruthless. We desire to bring extra heart into it, and I’m hoping I could perhaps perhaps also simply additionally be that obvious direct. Correct now, the chronicle in opposition to entrepreneurship is quite extreme, and that makes me depressed. I mean, this individual has left their job to try one thing new. They need feedback, not criticism.”
Shark Tank India, over time, has had moments that had been nitpicked and criticised not staunch by the pitchers however additionally by viewers. When asked about it, Pratham’s smile staunch will get wider. “I’m a if truth be told tender individual. We haven’t met in individual. But must you meet me, you’ll understand it’s very advanced for me to claim the rest that’ll wound anyone,” he says, in conjunction with, “I think I’ll be elegant…I could perhaps perhaps also very successfully be unimaginative, however that’s a separate discipline (laughs).” Does this mean that Pratham might perhaps perhaps not be butting heads alongside with his fellow sharks in any appreciate? “You’ll need to wait to glance that,” he says, refusing to teach extra, however in conjunction with, “Whatever you stare on cloak cloak is truth; it’s quite legit.”
On the different hand, there’s one individual he’s indubitably not butting heads with, and that’s Aman Gupta. “Aman is a if truth be told stop buddy, and he helped me feel very delighted whereas taking pictures. He additionally happens to be my neighbour. Peyush Bansal has been to Masters’ Union, so I’ve known him. I’ve additionally been alive to with Ritesh Agarwal within the past. Maybe as a result of they’re all from Delhi, esteem I’m, it helped us rating alongside successfully. Folks had been incredibly nice. We don’t know what form of companies we stare on a given day; it’s as grand a surprise for us as the audience,” says the brand new shark.
Interesting beyond the 9-5 in extra techniques than one
Pratham has built a successful career by not staunch founding academic institutions, however additionally making sure his college students don’t feel boxed in any scheme. “Gen Z and Alpha aren’t very affected person, and mountaineering the company ladder slowly feels esteem a effort to them. For the young ones in my family, jobs are a backup as a result of they aren’t as staunch as they once had been. To protect with that, Masters’ Union and Tetr are basically based entirely extra on constructing companies than mugging curriculum. It’s esteem if an incubator and a college had quite one,” he says, in conjunction with, “One motivation for me for approaching Shark Tank is additionally so I’m in a position to discuss extra about this.”
Pratham additionally champions for a rehaul of the ‘checks, slides, lectures, grades, attendance and textbook’ rut that the discovering out plot at repeat hinges on. “The entirely procedure diverse than college with a uniform, bell and strict time table is a prison. The plot is a total bunch of years used, when folks had been being prepped to serve within the navy or work in factories. We desire the plot to be relevant for the next day to come,” he says, in conjunction with how ‘it is a ways not wise’ that nearly all academic institutions in India don’t even allow college students to relief laptops.
A lot esteem ‘communities, political events and countries we don’t trace’, Pratham states that AI isn’t very one thing to be feared. “Maintaining the spider in your hand is the entirely scheme to make a aggressive edge. Robots will scheme and abolish us sooner or later, however that’s per chance 5 or six years away,” he jokes.
Pratham additionally doesn’t imagine in structured working hours, he says, at a time when Narayana Murthy and Deepika Padukone both shook up their respective fields with their opinions. “I think contentment is extra special, you’ll dwell longer and have a healthier heart. But must you’re unhappy, work smarter. Whenever you’re gay, work typical hours. But I don’t have the authority to repeat anyone work,” he rounds off cheekily.
Shark Tank India Season 5 will start streaming on Sony LIV and Sony Entertainment Tv from January 5, 2026.
