Alumni Spotlight: Pablo Cortizas (’25) Inspires Grade 11 Entrepreneurs

Pablo Cortizas Fontan, UNIS Class of 2025, visited campus on Tuesday, March 31st to talk to Grade 11 students about his experience at TETR College of Business and the important future skills needed to be a successful entrepreneur. An alternative-university model, TETR College of Business blends academics, internships, and hands-on business experience where students create start-up companies in seven different locations – from Dubai to India, China to Ghana, and Argentina to the USA and Europe – and are exposed to new cultures, professors and leaders in industry. Students learned from Pablo about what he is currently doing at TETR: drop-shipping, creating minimum viable products, and product validation.

Pablo highlighted several skills he has strengthened at TETR which students need to focus on for future success in any business endeavor. 

• Become a native on how to use AI: Pablo stressed learning the subject matter taught in academic classes but also leveraging AI, as a “sparring partner”, to help students generate ideas and content, from creating apps to coding to understanding a concept at a deeper level.
• Patience, empathy, and adaptability: Pablo emphasized these important soft-skills for business as working with teams will always be a challenge due to cultural, intellectual, and habitual differences. Healthy conflict in teams can create better outcomes for products. 
• Do what feels like play to you: If students are not interested in and engaged in their course of study, it will feel like work and they will not be as successful as if they choose something which feels intriguing and exciting. 
• Feedback is key, not perfection: getting direct feedback during inception of an idea rather than waiting until it is perfect is the best way to increase productivity and success. Students should not shy away from sharing ideas and hearing others’ opinions, not as criticism but as observation and commentary on how to move to the next level.