Interviews

Rishi Gosalia works as a software engineer at Google. He has been investing his own capital since 2007 and more recently managing money for family and friends. He graduated from the University of Texas at Austin in 2003 as a Distinguished Scholar with an undergraduate degree in Computer Science and Pure Mathematics. Outside of engineering and investing, Rishi loves to travel, hike, read, and teach. He lives in San Francisco Bay Area with his wife and two kids.

In this interview, Rishi talks about his journey of self-learning and investing, and his experiences in compounding and multi-disciplinary thinking.

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Janardhanan Vembunarayanan is a Senior Director of Engineering at LinkedIn. His work involves providing economic opportunity for every professional in the world. He is an ardent believer in the quote: Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day; teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime. So, Jana is also a teacher and blogger, and blogs here.

In his interview with Anshul, he talks about his journey of self-learning and investing, and his experiences in compounding and multi-disciplinary thinking.

Anshul – Safal Niveshak (SN): Tell us about your background especially your education and career path.
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Saurabh Madaan is a Silicon Valley-based investor and a Senior Data Scientist at Google. He is well-known in the investing world for his more than 30 interviews with the world’s best investors through Talks@Google investing series.

Saurabh also teaches an award-winning Leadership and Teamwork course at Google, has previously addressed the global One Young World Summit to talk about leadership and education, with the likes of Richard Branson and Muhammad Yunus. Saurabh holds a B. Tech from IIT Madras (2006), MS in engineering from the University of Pennsylvania (2008), and MS in Physics from the University of Waterloo (2010). He was Literary Secretary and editor at IIT Madras, and the recipient of graduate scholarships at both Penn and Waterloo.

Over to Saurabh!

Safal Niveshak (SN): Please share about your background in education and what work do you do at Google?

Saurabh Madaan (SM): I grew up in Amritsar, India. I studied there before going to IIT Madras where I did material science and engineering. Then I got a scholarship to study masters in engineering at the University of Pennsylvania in the US. I had always wanted to study Physics, and did another masters in Physics (University of Waterloo) before I started working at Google.

Currently, I work as a Senior Data Scientist at Google. There is rich statistics and machine learning behind Google’s search and ads. My team focuses on the latter. My day job involves simulations, predictive models and business strategy. I am constantly thinking of risk and probabilities, concepts which also translate well in to investing.
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Shane Parrish is the curator behind Farnam Street, a website aimed at mastering the best of what other people have already figured out. Shane is the founding partner of Syrus Partners,, a holding company that acquires and operates businesses in North America. Before Syrus, Shane worked as an executive in the Canadian government, where he led the creation and execution of key cyber-defense initiatives.

This isn’t your typical value investing interview, but one around topics of reading, learning, and multidisciplinary thinking.

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Note: This interview was originally published in the November 2017 issue of Value Investing Almanack. To read more such interviews and other deep thoughts on value investing, business analysis and behavioral finance, click here to subscribe to VIA.

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Kenneth Jeffrey Marshall is an American value investor, teacher, and author. He teaches value investing in the masters in finance program at the Stockholm School of Economics in Sweden, and at Stanford University. He also teaches asset management in the MBA program at the Haas School of Business at the University of California, Berkeley. He is the author of the 2017 bestselling book Good Stocks Cheap: Value Investing with Confidence for a Lifetime of Stock Market Outperformance published by McGraw-Hill. He holds a BA in Economics, International Area Studies from the University of California, Los Angeles; and an MBA from Harvard University. He splits his time between California and Sweden.

Safal Niveshak (SN): Thanks for doing this interview, Kenneth! Please tell us a little about your background and journey, and how you got into value investing?

Kenneth Marshall (KM): Well, I was first shown value investing in the late 1980’s. But it wasn’t like some sudden enlightenment. It actually took me a decade to get it. I’d rather not think about the cost of that delay.

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