Manpreet Singh is co-founder and President of TalkLocal, a company that connects users with service providers over the phone within minutes of their request. He started his first company in high school - a website that had 300K visitors per month. He then worked full-time at an investment management firm through college and his MBA, helping to grow it from $20 million to $2 billion under management, and now has launched TalkLocal.

Our two questions for Manpreet?

1. Why did he leave an investment management firm he had been at for twelve years (as Employee #1) to start an internet company?
2. How did he conceive of TalkLocal and get it off the ground?

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