learnings

Many years ago, after completing a USD 2 billion cross-border deal, I was invited to share some of my takeaways (confidentially of...

[Adapted from something I saw off the Internet recently.]

Management is: Get it done, follow-up, discipline, planning, analysis, facts, facts, facts. It’s [getting] the right people in the room,...

Inspired by a tweet that I'd read elsewhere, I decided to adapt the content and pen this. Best way to solve money problems at home is...

As an investment banker I used to work very long hours (I still do) and we were almost always allowed to be reimbursed for dinner and...

Reaffirming point #36 in my forty takeaways last year: Most of the people around me keep trying to tell me what's good for me or how I...

More than ten years ago before COVID-19, I recall most of my days (and nights) spent in the office working on ppt slides and having...

The last few weeks had been a huge tailspin for me. I relate it to a multitude of challenges compounded upon each other - first, the...

This is true for many investment banks. And people pay for complexity. But it's an odd world: Founders chasing publicity on social media,...

“Rome wasn’t built in a day but they were laying bricks every hour.” "The problem is that it can be really easy to overestimate the...

Someone asked me about paychecks recently. "Paycheck? What paycheck? We are business owners, we don't draw paychecks." Once you've owned...

That feeling of crumbling... Here are some of the things that i had learned from these experiences: 1) Despair and greed (both) drive...

I have never been a good investor. Since the day I started working, I had been through maybe two or three market down-cycles. In every of...

The Starbucks at Capital Towers brings back memories of how I was helping a company look for investors some years back. I was sitting...

Thoughtful weekend read and a timely reminder for reflecting on all bad decisions made in the last four years.

in starting up any business or career, one needs to first understand your role within the firm - are you a small gear or a large gear...

IB isn't just about getting through the gruelling late nights and delivering on the number crunching. It was also about the harsh and...

More than three years since I started out, I discovered a new-found respect for the many areas of businesses which are presumably...