I Didn't Like The Long Hours of Investment Banking, Weekend Off Chahiye Tha, Ft. Amit G, IIM B Alum

Konversations Cafe is going global, and our first stop is Dubai. Our final speaker in the Dubai Konversations Cafe is Amit Gupta, Co-Founder of Altitude Trading and an IIT-IIM Alumni. A small-town boy, who attributes his life journey to foiled plans, all the way from wanting to start his own business to IIT and IIM to Lehman to finally being unemployed. Here’s his story.
Amit Gupta was born in the small-town of Jalandhar, where growing up he saw successful rich people exclusively as businessmen. That’s where the germ of an idea was born, that he’d one day set up a business of his own.
With no knowledge of what product or tool he’d work with, a naïve Amit decided that an import/export business would set him up for life. He learnt the challenge of the endeavor later-on.
Growing up, Amit always seemed a bright kid to his family and which he proved later, by securing admission into the premier engineering institute of the country, IIT Delhi. He fondly remembers his time and friendships from IIT Delhi, but more importantly his participation in various extra-curricular activities.
He decided he won’t go down the MBA path, but life and his CGPA had other plans. Not receiving the shortlists he was hoping for, i.e. Consulting, he reluctantly sat for Job interviews and CAT. He received two job offers and a high waitlist at his only IIM Call, which was Bangalore, respectively.
He was still unsure if his IIM Bangalore waitlist would convert, and if he’d even want to go if it converted, as he had two job offers.
That’s when his seniors knocked some sense into him to not give up on the IIM Bangalore convert, and Amit obliged. Navigating through the rigorous curriculum at IIM, he converted his Summer Internship into a PPO to work with Lehman Brothers.
And as has been a pattern with Amit’s life, he was rendered unemployed during the infamous Lehman Brothers collapse of 2008 during the Global Financial Crisis. Looking back he scathed out of the debris just fine, but it was a nerve-wracking time for him at the time. In this conversation, he shares what happened during the bust.
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