Life's a Pitch

Boring PPT of the day #9

By this chap called Kris Nair, and I dunno who it is!

“tell me a story” -- every child

LIFE IS A PITCH!

KRIS NAIRCEO, Opdrage Venture Partners L.P

{here onwards will be known for making the most demoralizing college speech ever…}

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Sourced and sold international science magazines to his school friends, when he was 9.

BRAGGING RIGHTS

+ 4 other failed/semi failed ventures

• Building businesses, since 1999• Babysitting Entrepreneurs, since

2007• Companies backed: 34• Number of jobs created: 12,000• The Opdrage Hybrid Business

Model™• Slightly famous for: 100,000 {Low-

Income / Micro}• Later: Create a dent in the Universe

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{if you don’t know that, date a geek}

Q: World’s most abused interview question ever?

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THIS IS THE PART WHERE I GET SERIOUSLY UNPOPULAR.

“ALL GREAT TRUTHS BEGIN AS BLASPHEMIES” -- GEORGE BERNARD SHAW

WARNING*

MBA:

REHABILITATING UNEMPLOYABLE ENGINEERS. SINCE 1965

Because…

Casual Reasoning Effectual reasoning

McKinsey & Sons

BCG, Monitor, Goldman and others

Stop BSing!

• Great companies (read entrepreneur driven) want to hire/invest in great minds who will be successful with or without them!

• so stop bullshitting that you are great, and show them, what you *DID*

The problem with some MBA degrees

the right answer will get a date with

Managerial Thinking – Casual Reasoning

Distinguishing characteristic: Selecting between given means to achieve a pre-determined goal

Strategic Thinking – Creative Casual Reasoning

Distinguishing characteristic: Generating new means to achieve pre-determined goals

Entrepreneurial Thinking – Effectual Reasoning

Distinguishing characteristic: Imagining possible new ends using given set of means

HUGH MACLEOD

“The price of being a wolf is loneliness; the price of being a sheep is boredom… Choose one or the other with great care”

Answer to the most cliché question:

The best way to predict the future is to invent it.

That’s 42: the answer to the question of life, universe and everything!

How to become one?

the famous question

An entrepreneur is a self-employed person working 16 hours a day to avoid working 8

hours a day for someone else

So, what makes entrepreneurs entrepreneurial?

They believe in a 'yet-to-be-made' future can substantially be shaped by human action!

Pause & yawn!

PART 2(serious show-off coming next: 3 stories)

Three ‘simple’ Stories

1. Knock Knock2. Tan Tan

3. Hunt Hunt

1. Knockin' on Heaven's Door

till your buckles bleeda) chasing cars b) the first step to the

final step

CHASING CARS

How I raised my first external investment in my first company, when I was 17

THE SAFETY, HONOUR AND WELFARE OF YOUR COUNTRY COME FIRST, ALWAYS AND EVERY TIME.

THE HONOUR, WELFARE AND COMFORT OF THE MEN YOU COMMAND COME NEXT.

“success comes from repeated attempts, falling down after many failures, getting back up with

help of friends. just don't quit.”

“…. There ought to be a picture of you in the dictionary under persistence, kid.”- Gordon Gekko

2. LIFE’S NEVER FAIR.

its tan!

#FAIL

• You can fail so very often. But you are not a failure until you give up.

• Dealing with failure is easy: Work hard to improve. Success is also easy to handle: You've solved the wrong problem. Work hard to improve.

• I fail everyday!

The best writing is rewriting.

fail fast. fail often.

In this world, to become a visionary, you need scars.

the demons, falls and scars of my life

Fall down, make a mess, break something occasionally. And remember that the story is never over.

You must have chaos within you to give birth to a dancing star.

3. HUNT, LUST

defines you.

ADDICTIONS

Acid

Weed / Cig

?Monthly Salary

ATM

Aukaat Telling Machine

Future:

Every-time you look at it, it changes, because you looked at it.

And that changes everything else.

YAWNNN! TOOMUCH OF GYAN!Last slide coming soon!

Productize yourself

if I ever have to give you a career advice

If it’s not a hit, switch.

and keep switching

Inspiration is perishable.

get inspired, every moment

Strive every day to live your life like you are a 50-foot fire falcon

LUST IS WHAT DEFINES YOU

Lust life. If someone say “life’s short”, slap him

LIFE IS LONG!and nobody is going to get-out of here alive!

"Believe it or not we are still in the very early stages of what we want to do."

-- Larry Page, Co-Founder

“Let the world change you and you can change the world…”

- Che Guevara

REAL MEN

HUNT THEIR OWN DINNER.

Congratulations and always remember:

-- KRIS NAIR

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