Zero to One (and beyond): The Path to Financial Independence
If an engineer with no interest in finance can do it, so can you!
As a 17 year old who had just made it into the prestigious and ever so celebrated Indian Institute of Technology (a.k.a IITs: the premier engineering institute in India and renowned all over the world for some of the most successful CEOs of Fortune 500 companies - read: Apple, Google, Microsoft, PepsiCo and the list goes on …), I wouldn’t have bet a $ worth that I’d be finance savvy or living a semi-retired life in my mid-30s!
How did it all start?
From studying engineering and working on a start-up in Silicon Valley as a teenager to a management (MBA) degree at HEC Paris and Stanford University in California and onwards to investment banking, private equity at the likes of Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley London, the path has been less trodden by. On the basis of anecdotal references, I will try to convert on my journey into “quick learning pro tips” across my posts as easy takeaways.
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