by Rajan Singh | Mar 23, 2023 | LinkedIn Posts
In my first year programming course in Pascal at IIT Kanpur, I learned a few life lessons — some of which I regretted for a long time. In the first few weeks of the course, I paid little attention to the lectures. But as the dreaded mid-semester exam approached,...
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....
