The One Percent Show: Swanand Kelkar on the Purpose of Life, Dealing with Boring Nothingness, and Playing the Long Game

Welcome to the 28th episode of The One Percent Show with Vishal Khandelwal. This show is an open-ended exploration into the minds of the wisest people around to help us learn to think, invest, and live each day a little, even if as little as one percent, better.

In this episode, I talk to Swanand Kelkar, Managing Partner at Breakout Capital. In his earlier roles, Swanand worked at Fidelity, HSBC and an India affiliate of Deloitte before joining Morgan Stanley Investment Management in 2007. He worked at Morgan Stanley for 14 years, rising to managing director, overseeing a roughly $3 billion portfolio. Several of the Morgan Stanley funds he managed ranked in the top decile of emerging market performers between 2014 and 2017. Swanand is a graduate from Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad and is a chartered accountant. A rare multi-talent, he is also a certified yoga instructor and a club cricketer.

In this episode, Swanand talks about his sabbatical experiences, importance of playing the long game in life and investing, the equation of happiness and how to maximize the outcome, meditation, and much more.

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