by Rajan Singh | Apr 4, 2023 | LinkedIn Posts
When I left the Civil Services to join an MBA program, I found people looking down on technical knowledge as something low-value, meant for the ‘junior guys.’ The senior folks were the ones supposedly creating real value because they could speed-dial an Ambani or a...
by Rajan Singh | Apr 3, 2023 | LinkedIn Posts
At Wharton, in Prof Jeremey Siegel’s class, we had no place to sit for the first 10 minutes since people would crowd for his ‘daily market updates’. He was a rockstar professor but had one quirk — to keep his teaching material exclusive, he would give his course...
by Rajan Singh | Mar 31, 2023 | LinkedIn Posts
On a hillock in the jungles of Tripura, we were assigned small huts for our stay in the CRPF (Central Reserve Police Force) camp. This was during the IPS training when we were attached to our paramilitary forces for first-hand exposure to counter-insurgency...
by Rajan Singh | Mar 30, 2023 | LinkedIn Posts
Three years ago, my startup was catastrophically burning cash. We only had cash to pay salaries for 3-4 months. To survive, we had to change the business model. But for that, we needed to survive. It was a catch-22, without a way out. Or at least, that is how I felt....
by Rajan Singh | Mar 29, 2023 | LinkedIn Posts
It was day 1 of Prof. Robert Verrecchia’s class at Wharton. As I gingerly entered and took a seat at the back, I saw the intimidating crowd of my ex-banker classmates around me — this was an advanced accounting course and as an ex-cop, I could barely spell...
