If you want to be in a rarefied space, a financial space, then it probably makes sense to join Goldman Sachs. Pick up some threads, some contacts, get a bunch of colleagues who will come with you and begin something.
The way we look at it, there are two worlds – the real world and the virtual world. The virtual world is something which the financial types operate. The real world is where lot of us slog to physically do work.
If you want to do something in the real world, sell products to people, impact consumers, it makes more sense to work in real life companies, smaller the better. Don’t join a Hindustan Lever or a Coca Cola. Join smaller companies because you will get far more exposure. I can’t believe that in two years, in any other company, I could have sat for IR negotiation of financial restructuring negotiations.
The larger company you work in, the less you are able to get the nuts and bolts, the less you are able to see the bigger picture. You need to go and challenge yourself, you need to go and fight your way in the market. That experience will make all the difference!
To drive towards your goal, you are working on a path. But that path is not 100% right. You are correcting yourself by learning, by experience, and making these corrections and moving forward on the system and coming out a winner…. The sheer value of learning, everyday, is what keeps you going.
I don’t think so money is important in terms of having personal ownership. Enough money available to the company for what it wants to do, is a good thing but even there we have a worry that too much money makes it inefficient and lazy.
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