by Rajan Singh | Mar 22, 2023 | LinkedIn Posts
In 2009, during my consulting days, a team member who was a former US Army officer, once casually told me that she would be running a marathon the coming weekend. Even though I had done long-distance runs, I used to think of a marathon as something extreme. Yet, here...
by Rajan Singh | Mar 21, 2023 | LinkedIn Posts
I have never envied anyone more than this guy I met one evening in 2008, near New York City. He was the brother-in-law of a friend, who introduced us. This guy was the textbook definition of brilliance: Undergrad from Wharton, business analyst at McKinsey, followed by...
by Rajan Singh | Mar 20, 2023 | LinkedIn Posts
Years ago, I was talking to a contemporary from an IIT, who was well-settled, working in a good, stable tech company, with a good salary. He didn’t mind the job even if he wasn’t madly in love with it. During our chat, he started talking about a passion that he...
by Rajan Singh | Mar 17, 2023 | LinkedIn Posts
A private equity fund I know, once invested in a startup led by a rockstar CEO — or so we were told. The startup raised seed capital of $100 million on day 1 — no kidding. Flush with money, they had a private jet parked at London’s Heathrow airport....
by Rajan Singh | Mar 16, 2023 | LinkedIn Posts
When I was recruiting during my MBA at Wharton, people said that if an interviewer asks whether you have other job offers, always say ‘yes.’ The logic is that if other companies have offered you jobs, then it shows that you are a strong candidate. But I was very...
