by Rajan Singh | Sep 4, 2023 | LinkedIn Posts
In a finance class at Wharton, I realized the root cause of the 2008 financial meltdown — complexity. And if we are not careful, for the same reason, many will get hurt in the current crypto craze. In the abovementioned class, the professor explained loan...
by Rajan Singh | Sep 1, 2023 | LinkedIn Posts
In my first year at IIT, we had a race — no, not the rat race, but a literal one. We had to pick a humanities course, which was assigned ‘first come, first served.’ Prof Amit Ray’s course on arts/design was the most popular — he gave ‘A’ grades quite...
by Rajan Singh | Aug 31, 2023 | LinkedIn Posts
When I left McKinsey to join private equity in India, I was extremely nervous. I knew nothing about investing. All I had learned at b-school and at McKinsey was the theoretical stuff. And now I would have to rub shoulders with the ‘pros.’ Since these people were...
by Rajan Singh | Aug 30, 2023 | LinkedIn Posts
Many years ago, during a social event, an IPS officer known for obsessive drinking claimed that while serving in the Border Security Force, he had liquor in the deserts of Rajasthan, under the night sky. And that according to him, was the most enjoyable experience man...
by Rajan Singh | Aug 28, 2023 | 2023, Newsletter
On Feb 22, 2021, I got an email from Apoorba, a participant from our digital detox program Undistractable (it was then called ‘Reboot’). Apoorba was in the middle of a career crisis. His sales team was shrinking and the sales numbers were crashing. Covid had made it...
