INSEAD 2003J Podcast

We talk about going from investment banking in NY and London to running the world's 4th largest lithium mine.

We talk about going from private equity to INSEAD, back to finance and then returning to Greece to become a MP and cabinet minister.

We talk about going from France to Australia (via Florida), helping France get a contract to sell submarines to Australia (which was stolen by the Americans) and setting up a fund and advisory service.

We talk about going from being a hot shot M&A lawyer in Spain to being a hot shot M&A lawyer in Spain to starting his own M&A advisory firm in Spain and an amazing foundation that is saving baby's lives. 

We talk about going from a small village outside of Calcutta to working at McKinsey to becoming a broadband fiber expert.

We talk about starting a women's portal in Vietnam, moving to Singapore to work for Samsung and moving to Vancouver to start a metabolic health platform.

We talk about setting up a web agency in China, sleeping on Greg Mittman's couch, starting up digital marketing in China for Nike and philosophical questions around retirement.

We talk about raising Alpacas, sneaking pregnant wives onto transatlantic flights, working for a little company named IBM and starting a deep tech VC fund.

We talk about going from consulting, to pumpers, to failing to become a C-grade celebrity in Italy.

We talk about going from being a journalist in Russia, to having to leave Russia for the same reason, to using generative AI to create news in Germany.