by Rajan Singh | Apr 12, 2023 | LinkedIn Posts
On 31st Oct 2002, a bloody riot on the roads of Trivandrum showed me an unseen side of human nature. That morning, a protest march of 20,000 people was demanding the release of an extremist political leader, arrested in a bomb blast case. As the chief of the...
by Rajan Singh | Apr 11, 2023 | 2023, Newsletter
The harder you work, the more you get done, and the more value you create. Right? Wrong! It turns out that life is not that linear. Working long hours, non-stop, is not the recipe for value creation. Nor is working without a break for months and years. Every once in a...
by Rajan Singh | Apr 11, 2023 | LinkedIn Posts
When I got into the Civil Services, my mind did not go ‘Wow, this is great news.’ It was more like — ‘Ok, this is done. Now, what next?’ All my life, I have chased the next mountain to climb. As a result, I ended up trying a lot of different things, failing...
by Rajan Singh | Apr 10, 2023 | LinkedIn Posts
At the fag end of my MBA, having had enough of finance courses and the hyper-competitive MBA crowd, I wanted a short break from the rat race. So I signed up for ‘History of Western Classical Music’, a course outside Wharton, offered by the music department. The...
by Rajan Singh | Apr 7, 2023 | LinkedIn Posts
In 2009, when I first joined private equity investing, I found that we MBAs understood finance less than a typical Marwari businessman. Most investors talk only about growth and multiples (usually EV/EBITDA) but rarely does anyone ask: Is this firm REALLY creating...
