‘I Was Stubborn About Doing Investment Banking Only In India’ - Sohit Kapoor, ex-IB, IIM B, Pt 1

Sohit Kapoor has spent over 11 years as an investment banker in Merrill Lynch before starting his own venture DRiefcase Founder five years back.

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But, investment banking was not always in the cards for Sohit; neither was engineering nor MBA.

In this first video of Konversations Cafe season 5, we have an interesting story of Sohit Kapoor, who did his engineering from Mumbai and never thought that he will be part of the prestigious IIMs.

He shares his story of getting through to IIM Bangalore, what changed during his time at IIM B for him personally and professionally, why he chose to stick to investment banking and where did his life head after that.

Tell us in the comments below if you liked Sohit’s journey and share it with friends and people who you think will get benefitted from this.

Watch the part 2 of this video where Sohit talks about his journey as an Investment Banker, founding DRiefcase and a lot more:    • I Thought I Would Retire As An Investment ...  

0:00 Intro
1:19 Background
2:42 My IIT Story
4:35 My Struggle To Land A College
7:19 1st Year Of Engineering
9:05 My Fascination For Dhanda
10:57 My Dream To Get Into An IIM
12:00 My CAT Journey
13:11 0 Converts On The First Attempt
14:45 Gearing Up For The 2nd Innings
16:00 IIM C vs IIM B
19:46 Learn Corporate Finance At AltUni
20:37 My Journey Of Getting Into Investment Banking
26:57 I Was Stern About Investment Banking
33:13 My Experience At Merrill Lynch
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