by Rajan Singh | Sep 6, 2023 | LinkedIn Posts
VCs love to talk about the unicorns in their portfolio – and understandably so. But why don’t we talk about how many of our companies are ethical? Sometimes, winning at ANY cost is not ‘winning’ — it is ‘cheating.’ Long ago, when I came to Kerala after...
by Rajan Singh | Sep 5, 2023 | LinkedIn Posts
A few years ago, at an organic food show in Trivandrum, a girl at the entry counter stopped me. And with the zeal of a convert, she shoved a pamphlet in my face, and started lambasting how evil genetically modified (GM) food was. I am not for or against GM food but to...
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...
