New Delhi: During her school days, Sampriti Bhattacharyya, based out of Kolkata, was an ordinary student who failed Physics and was asked by her teacher to become a housewife.
Cut to the chase, Bhattacharyya is not a housewife today (out of her choice) but she is making flying boats, certainly a work that only an expert could do. Despite being brought down, Bhattacharya did the otherwise of what her teacher expected. Now, Sampriti has become a businesswoman who is manufacturing machines of future.
Bhattacharya (36) is the founder and CEO of a company called Navier, which claims to have the longest range in the world and is America’s first all-electric hydrofoil. The company is revolutionizing the maritime industry with its electric hydrofoil called the Navier 30.
Speaking to digital creator Nas Daily, Bhattacharyya said she never let her teacher’s comment affect or stop her from pursuing what she loved; Physics.
“I wasn’t the best at math in high school, and he (the teacher) thought the best thing I could do was probably be a housewife or work a much smaller job,” she said.
Selected In Only One Out Of 540 Companies
Bhattacharyya applied for internships at 540 companies and was accepted by only one particle physics lab in the United States when she was 20. As reported by Moneycontrol, she said: “In each of the 540 emails, I told them what I could do for them and only 4 responded. And in the end there was only one successful email and that was an internship opportunity at Fermilab.”
Building my startup after an internship at NASA Bhattacharyya then flew to Chicago as a research assistant. That’s when she embraced science entirely.
Her journey then followed by another internship at NASA, a master’s degree from Ohio State University and a PhD from MIT. She then moved to San Francisco, raised $12 million and hired a boat-building team. Featured on Forbes’ list of the 30 most powerful young change makers In 2016, she was also honored by Forbes as one of the 30 most powerful young change agents in the world.
