Saturday 14 May 2016

The Rags-to-Riches Tale of Pradeep Walia

Put simply, Pradeep Walia knows how to make money, despite significant adversity. He has showed this tendency through all of the ups and downs of his life. However, in addition to the inspirational of his career journey, where he went from arriving in the United States with $20 and was running a multi-million-dollar company within a few year, there is also a strong charitable spirit.

Even those who know about his entrepreneurial journey are only getting half the story.
Pradeep Kumar Walia has overcome a lot of great ups and severe downs during his life, including several recessions, and bounced back every time. But through it all, even during the worst periods in his life, he never forgot the adversity he has overcome in his life and he never given up on his belief that the most important thing in life was helping others.

Even at those times when he was unable to help people with money, he always volunteered his time. He helped Mother Teresa’s orphanages and he provided people without homes with blankets to keep them warm. His was a rags-to-riches story that would make a great movie and Pradeep Walia hopes to one day make a patriotic movie of his own. He’s currently writing a script, so we’ll see.

However, these days, Pradeep Walia is more concerned with giving back. His personal foundation has launched several NGOs in India designed to help the poor manage in the capitalist economic system, including Jimba. He is also working to bring high quality healthcare to underserved areas of India, as well as those in Africa and even rural areas of the United States. He hopes to continue to bring many people the opportunities he was given when he came here.