Ankur Gopal was brought up in Kentucky by parents who immigrated from India. He was doomed to be his grandmother's tech support (watch the video).
After college and some time in Silicon Valley, Ankur returned to Kentucky . . where he had a revelation about its people and their abilities. They had value and intelligence that would respond to opportunity.
Rural Kentuckians may be thought of as tooth-free, grinning, moonshine-drinking hillbillies. But from a different point of view, "A hillbilly can do anything. Out in the hollows, you can’t call in specialists; you fix that stalled truck, that leaky roof, that broken radio yourself."
He started a business which now trains them to develop apps.
“Why outsource coding jobs to Bangalore when we can insource jobs to eastern Kentucky, poor in jobs but rich in work ethic?"
(cont'd tomorrow)
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