INSEAD 2003J Podcast

We talk about a tour of duty from being an engineer to business development to M&A at a number of large technology companies. 

We talk about going from an agency in India, to distributing international TV content in the US to starting up a fashion brand in India. And, he offered to help get tickets to the 2026 world cup. 

We talk about going from McKinsey to private equity to a clean energy fund to being the CFO of a healthtech company in Cambridge.

We talk about building infrastructure all over the world. 

We talk about Chetan's journey around the world as an investment banker. 

We talk about how one adjusts from living in California to returning to France and going from working at big companies to hiking his own path at various PE acquisitions. 

We talk about going from investment banking to two sided internet marketplaces to becoming a professional board member.

We talk about riding the dot com boom/bust to taking a job at big Pharma to becoming a headhunter to working for the Gates foundation to becoming a film maker to running an incubator.

Pilar takes one for the team and allows me to bore everybody with stories about my mediocre attempts at tech companies and start ups.

We have a surprisingly modest (for a Dutch person) discussion ranging from barely graduating high school to working haute finance in New York and London to how to think about retirement.