Pratyush Prasanna

Bitter truth, 95% or maybe more of the product managers are project managers with zero or little more sense on product management.

30 years after graduating, the only piece of advice that I can give students is that if you have a choice between a good course in an average college & an average course in a good college, go for the good college. What you studied will not matter as much as where you studied!

Top 10 Charlie Munger quotes: 1. "Spend each day trying to be a little wiser than you were when you woke up." 2. "The best thing a human being can do is to help another human being know more." 3. "It is remarkable how much long-term advantage people like us have gotten by trying to be consistently not stupid, instead of trying to be very intelligent." 4. "In my whole life, I have known no wise people who didn't read all the time — none, zero." 5. "I never allow myself to have an opinion on anything that I don't know the other side's argument better than they do." 6. "The big money is not in the buying and selling, but in the waiting." 7. "You don't have to be brilliant, only a little bit wiser than the other guys, on average, for a long, long time." 8. "The first rule is that you can't really know anything if you just remember isolated facts and try and bang 'em back." 9. "There are worse situations than drowning in cash and sitting, sitting, sitting." 10. "The game of life is the game of everlasting learning. At least it is if you want to win." These quotes reflect Munger's emphasis on continuous learning, rational decision-making, and a long-term perspective in investing and life. R.I.P. king 👑

Treat colleges like launchpads! I can’t stress enough that good colleges not only provide good exposure, but also good alumni and network. 95% of us need to go to college, don’t get inspired by outliers - under the hood those folks work very hard, and serendipity worked as well

My favorite interview question is: "What's the worst job you've ever had?" If your first job was an internship at an investment bank at 20, then it's hard no. If you worked at McDonalds starting at 16, it's a hard yes.

As Vivek so aptly put it when we met last: first time founders focus entirely on product, second time founders pay equal attention to legal and finance also.