Imagine being in the year ’97 where no one knows what a computer is, forget about the internet. A man called Sanjeev Bhikchandani (SB) while waiting for a job interview observes that candidates are always circling Classifieds...
Reliance Industries Limited (RIL), the Company owned by Mr. Mukesh Ambani can no longer be called an oil company. At the risk of sounding atrociously ambitious, I look at it as the Berkshire Hathaway of India. What is...
At the onset, I would like to thank Mr. Rajeev Poddar, my economics teacher who still hasn’t blocked my number given the countless calls I make to him on a weekly basis to discuss stocks, economy and life in general. In...
Today, I wish to reinvent the wheel and talk about ‘Money Value of Time’. Wait. Isn’t it supposed to be Time Value of Money? As a finance professional who has spent countless hours crunching numbers, I’ve used this...
Introduction Solara Active Pharma Sciences (SAPS) was formed in the year 2018 by carving out the Active Pharmaceutical Ingredients (API) business of Strides Pharma and Sequent Scientific. Within 6 months of the carve out...
This post was originally published for The Financial Pandora. Do check out their website. The world of Venture capital (VC) and start-ups has become too glamorous these days. From billion-dollar funds going forward raising one...
There is a very popular saying in the world of gambling and casinos. “The house always wins.” This basically translates to a belief that if you run a casino, you will always make money. If this is as good as it...
Simon Sinek is a best selling author who has written multiple books and is a trained ethnographer (a person who studies and describes the culture of a particular society or group). I had come across an interesting video where...
I was introduced to capital markets at a very young age looking at my father (a retired lawyer) fiddling with various physical contract notes and calling up brokers through our landline while Udayan Mukherjee used to come on the...
We have all done this. Delayed our book reading plans. “Oh! Maybe next year!” On a lot of occasions, the new year starts with a book which is piously completed with innate dedication and then the mind gets into...
It was the year 2016 and I was deeply excited about the start-up space in India. As I sat in the NASSCOM warehouse in Kolkata and flush with everything ‘start-up’ around me, there was something strikingly odd that I...
In the year 2001, Thomas Clark, Nike’s Vice president started the Oregon Project. Thomas was not satisfied with performance of long distance American athletes since the early 80’s. Alberto Salazar, a renowned...
