This is a YouTube video titled "MC Podcast Guest Speaker Pitch Video 6 v1" featuring a speech by Manish Chhatri, recorded in May 2025. In this motivational talk, Manish shares his entrepreneurial journey starting from selling computers at the University of Bridgeport to founding Kahoot, a peer-to-peer order fulfillment network. He discusses his extensive e-commerce experience, the future of online shopping interfaces, and encourages graduates to persevere like the 'second mouse' in his opening story.
Two little mice fell in a bucket of cream. The first mouse quickly gave up and drowned. The second mouse wouldn't give up. He struggled so hard that eventually he churned that cream into butter, crawled out. Friends, I am that second mouse. We did start a business at the University of Bridgeport, Bodine hall, room 816. The way the business started was we started selling computers, assembled computers on campus and all of a sudden people demanded receipts for their computers. So we started printing them. And then we were told that we're supposed to pay sales tax to the state of Connecticut. I'm like, wow, now that's a new problem. You know, now we have. That's the way how the business began because we had to pay taxes. So now you know you can never escape taxes. And that's why I'm here today. My name is Manish Chhatri. I'm the founder and CEO of Kahoot. I have over 20 years of e commerce experience involved with building one of the first e commerce platforms. This is going back to the days before Magento gm. Following that, I built an order management inventory management platform as a full service solution. So I have seen and worked with SMB merchants, even large enterprise for nearly two decades and now I'm running Kahoot. Kahoot is the world's first peer to peer order fulfillment network. We provide brands and sellers, brands and retailers with best in class fulfillment services similar to Amazon fba. We all like the convenience of e commerce. We click the button, we forget what is the toll to the planet, to the environment. And this year about together we delivered almost 18,500 trees to 400 schools, libraries, kids that will be planted anytime this week. And some of them are already in this whole concept of websites like when you think about Shopify and e commerce platform and why every store needs to build a website and design a website and the user will come to the website and perform a certain transaction. In my head I am crystal clear on what the future looks like. This might sound radical, but I believe the website will come to you rather than you going to the website. I have a certain preferred interface, so it will be a interface that we design as humans and that is the interface I want to shop on, not on your interface. So you will have a data feed and my agent is going to simply pull your data and perform the transaction. Because you know my agent already has my payment information and your website will come to me. Premiumbeat.com premiumbeat.com it was one of my dreams to be a commencement speaker at UB someday. I never dreamt that day would come so soon. If you imagine less, less will be what you undoubtedly deserve. You might forget this day, but I never will. So, Purple Knights, get out there and be that second mouse. Congrats again. And I wish you more than luck. Thank you.
