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The path to becoming a millionaire
Six years ago, I became a first-time founder. This year, I’ve become a first-time author. Around three years ago, I started writing about ESOPs online, mostly because I kept meeting accomplished people with meaningful…
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How to own real estate without buying property
In 1930, John D. Rockefeller broke ground on a 22-acre complex in the heart of Manhattan that would become one of the world’s most valuable pieces of real estate: 14 office towers, Radio City Music Hall, the NBC…
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Why living longer should matter to you
In the White Mountains of California, there is a bristlecone pine tree that has been alive for over 5000 years. It was a sapling when the pyramids were being built. It has survived ice ages, centuries of drought, and…
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What is tokenomics and why it might be your biggest monthly bill
Walk through a colliery town in Yorkshire or South Wales in the 1850s and coal is everywhere, stacked at the pit-head, loaded onto barges, feeding the steam engines that had turned Britain into the workshop of the…
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How to choose the right wealth manager
Something interesting happens when wealth in India crosses a certain threshold. Below it, the decisions are relatively simple, where to park savings, which mutual fund to pick, whether to buy or rent. Above it, the…
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A detailed breakdown of the largest IPO in history
On April 13, 1970, an oxygen tank exploded aboard Apollo 13 more than 300,000 kilometres from Earth. What was meant to be a Moon landing became a desperate fight for survival. Using only the equipment already on board,…
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Performing credit: How to invest in this alternative asset class
Earlier this year, some of the world’s biggest asset managers, BlackRock, Blackstone, and Morgan Stanley, started receiving an unusual volume of calls from investors asking for their money back. Some funds limited…
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Everything you need to know about every asset class right now?
Earlier this week, we hosted the Dezerv Wealth Summit in Bengaluru, in partnership with Moneycontrol. Over 350 professionals, founders, CXOs, and wealth creators filled the room on a working evening, which itself says…
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How to get the most out of your premium credit cards
In September 1958, Bank of America did something unimaginable today. It mailed 60,000 credit cards, unsolicited, to households across Fresno, California. No applications, no consent, just a plastic card appearing in…
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What if you outlive your retirement corpus?
A few weeks ago, I said something on a podcast that lit up my inbox for days. I said you probably need ₹40 crore to retire comfortably in India, and the responses came fast: that I’d lost my mind, that it was clickbait,…