Neil Deshmukh stands out from the rest in the tech world for his many discovery achievements at MIT and these innovative ideas led him to creating an app called PlantumAI. This app uses AI technology to help farmers make important decisions. It combines Deshmukh’s advanced Ai technology with a deep understanding of agriculture challenges and patterns. This helps with optimizing crop production and reduce pesticide use. What makes Deshmukh so unique is his ability to find a global issue and combine his advanced knowledge of a subject to help others. Deshmukh is driven by his desire to help the underprivileged communities. He gets this drive from visiting his grandparents in India and seeing firsthand food shortages and effects of pesticides. This business model is very interesting as it uses new technology to be able to help the specific niche of farming. This is super smart as farmers will pay a lot of money for optimization. This makes his niche his own as he invented the type of AI which is utilized in his program. He shows signs of innovation and adaptability by using his knowledge to help another field. He also is working with towns in India while being in the US, so he has to be flexible. Deshmukh will continue to improve his own Ai in order to make his app more accurate and probably expand the app to other fields as more technology is invented or introduced to the AI scene. To me Deshmukh showed me the best example of how purpose driven design is so powerful and how solving problems and helping is more “profitable” than making a lot of money.
This is a great post! My family has a pretty big garden and so this business resonates with me because of all the times we’ve struggled with various plant sicknesses but still try to grow all organic. Deshmukhn’s idea to integrate AI into the gardening industry was very smart. I like that you talk about his drive behind the business idea too. You wrote this post well and I really enjoyed reading about Deshmukhn. Great job!