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In a Rapid Fire Interview with DQ Channels, Rasik Pansare, Co-Founder, Get My Parking shared his personal and professional vitae.
Founded in 2015, Get My Parking is a startup that has grown to a team of 100+ members across 3 continents. It provides essential technology to parking operators – white-label parking apps, IoT gate kits to retrofit old parking gates for modern capabilities, and an interoperable cloud platform that enables centralized and digital operations across a network of parking lots. The startup is spearheading new trends like EV charging, connected cars, and shared mobility hubs on the parking real estate with plug-n-play API integrations. The Get My Parking platform has been deployed across 2500 parking lots across the world and has processed 60 million+ transactions to date.
Home is in: I was brought up in Nashik, Maharashtra. It is famous for being a pilgrimage city (Kumbh mela) as well as a wine city (Sula wines).
School/college: I did my schooling from Symbiosis School in Nashik. I did my engineering from PICT, Pune University. Later I did MBA from FMS, Delhi University
Company: Get My Parking
What is your ideal day?
An ideal day for me would be any day when I am able to follow all my routines perfectly and be very productive at work and have loads of fun after work.
What inspires you?
A number of things. From specific influence by my father and grandfather to role model entrepreneurs who have changed the world. From my conversations with school friends to the teachings by my various mentors. From the impact on the user of my creations to the pain of society due to the unresolved problems. There’s inspiration all around us.
What’s your favourite place on earth?
Any comfortable and quiet beach surrounded by nature.
What’s your favourite food?
Very difficult question to answer. I don’t have favourites when it comes to things I love like food or movies or travelling.
What’s the thing you can’t live without?
Fortunately, I do not give that much power to any particular ‘thing’.
What is the best thing you like to do alone?
Ruminate. I have a very visual and creative imagination. I like to get lost in my imaginary worlds.
Last book you read: I recently finished ‘The Spiritual Crisis of Man’ and am currently re-reading (for the 3rd time) The Foundation Series by Isaac Asimov.
I never get tired of: Creative ideas and problem-solving.
What’s your motto in life?
Live life, don’t just exist.
What is the funniest thing that has happened to you recently?
My wife made me try clip-on earrings for fun and it was hilarious to look at myself in the mirror.
How would you rate your memory?
Good in terms of visual observations and stories. Poor in terms of numbers, facts, and people's names.
Advice to budding Entrepreneurs:
Build resilience and learn to learn fast. Try second-hand wisdom as much as possible. Be open and flexible to all possibilities.