Posts by Yash Yagnik

I’ve collected a lot of things over my career — business cards, term sheets, airline miles. But this one’s different. “Everyone knows I’m in over my head.” — The Fray Steve Mullins interviewed me when I applied to Dartmouth. Class of ’54. His office had dark green walls, and he wore a dark green sport…

“It could have been me.” (The Struts) I spent more than a decade as an investment banker. 100-hour weeks. 100,000-mile domestic flier every year. Full staff working the weekends with lunch and dinner provided. All day meetings from breakfast to bed. Mergers, acquisitions, sales, IPOs, secondaries, restructurings. I worked on things that were in the…