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10 Dec 2025

I realized that I didn’t really know how the world worked or how businesses work in any reality. So, I took it as a detour on purpose to learn more about how corporate environments work, how leadership functions, because I thought it would make me a better investor.

“I realized that I didn’t really know how the world worked or how businesses work in any reality. So, I took it as a detour on purpose to learn more about how corporate environments work, how leadership functions, because I thought it would make me a better investor.”

Speaker: Gaurav Kapadia
Episode: Gaurav Kapadia on New York City, Investing, and Contemporary Art
Publisher: Conversations with Tyler

Gaurav Kapadia

What Gaurav said.

I realized that I didn’t really know how the world worked or how businesses work in any reality. So, I took it as a detour on purpose to learn more about how corporate environments work, how leadership functions, because I thought it would make me a better investor.

For a couple of years, myself and my colleagues here — we managed basically my money with the same philosophy that we run XN in.