Lomit: It’s kind of like here like in South they have their kind of. Louis: It’s kind of like here, but opposite like… Well, yeah I guess it’s the same. Lomit: It is true, yeah in the North, the accents are a lot thicker, and most people don’t really understand it if you’re from the South, like London, and yeah. Louis: Or, the Geordie accents, which isn’t really English, but. Louis: Yeah, Bristol, or Cockney, slang or-Īriel: Like Manchester, oh, I’m saying Manchester in a weird way, but the Man. So, yeah I love that you said the Queen’s English, because I just recently realized that there are many-Īriel: No, that there are many different accents within a British accent, and it’s interesting because if you actually look at England itself, it’s quite a small country, but there are so many different accents for all the different regions. Louis: See? He’s always doing ROCE analysis.Īriel: Exactly, oh, drive that ROI. Louis was going to be a lot cheaper for me. But, at the end of the day, I kind of looked at the costs, and it was an ROI decision, because St. I wanted to come over for grad school, for business school, and I did get into some of the well-known universities like on the East and West coast. Lomit: No, no, no, no, it was actually a choice. Louis? Was that a choice? Or, was it a family moved here? Lomit: That was my first venture into the US where I actually lived, yeah. And, in the course of adjusting it kind of just took a whole new twang of its own, right? A lot of people didn’t really understand the Queen’s English, so to speak, so I had to adjust. Lomit: To be honest, it kind of came from me needing to adjust the way I used to speak, because I went to grad school in St. Lomit: Yeah, yeah I’ve spent more time here than I probably have on the other side.Īriel: Where do you think the Australian twang comes from though too? Lomit: Without trying to give away my age, I moved in the late 1990s, yeah.Īriel: Nice, so you’re basically an American now. Louis: So, that’s basically what elitist sounds like.Īriel: No, it sounds great, so when did you move here? So most people think it’s a South African, or Australian at this point. I actually grew up in England, so it’s supposed to be British, but it’s been Americanized a little bit. Like the mobile industry, but I never listened to you, and you have quite a charming accent. Lomit: I’m so excited to be here with you guys.Īriel: Just keep talking too, because I feel like, Lomit, I read your stuff all over. Louis: I am, and fortunately, we are not alone, Ariel.Īriel: We are not alone, we are actually with Lomit Patel, the vice president of growth at IMVU. Louis: Hello, Ariel Niedermeier who is the queen of content.Īriel: And, you are the managing director of App Growth Summit. We dive into Lomit’s inspiring backstory and also receive some amazing parental advice along the way as well! Far less silly, but way more inspirational than our typical interview, you’ll love listening to, and learning more about, IMVU’s Vice President of Growth, Lomit Patel. Many people know of Lomit as the prolific app growth expert, conference speaker, and best-selling author. Overcoming great odds, living out of a car, and a photo finish hiring before the visa runs out…this is the inspiring life story of well-known mobile app industry author Lomit Patel.
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