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Founder, CEO
Nikhaar (Nik) Shah
Investor | Founder & CEO: Home.LLC
Investor | Founder & CEO: Home.LLC
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Experience
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About
Achievements
- Rated in top 1% of management consultants at Ernst & Young
- Founded and set up the venture arm at Ernst & Young, managing $250M in AUM
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Q&A
What's the most useful business-related book you've ever read?
- The Hard Thing about Hard Things by Ben Horowitz
- Jobs to Be Done by Anthony W. Ulwick
- Skin in the Game by Nassim Taleb
- Innovator's Dilemma by Clay Christensen
- Good Leaders Ask Great Questions by John Maxwell
- Sapiens by YN Harrari
What's the best way for people to get in touch with you?
Email me at [email protected]
What words of wisdom do you live by?
I believe in these first principles:
- Hire people who're smarter than me
- Showcase my work-ethic by example
- Encourage meritocracy and collaboration
- Every leader is the first servant (to customer & coworkers)
What aspects of your work are you most passionate about?
The ability to solve end-user pain points while generating wealth for everyone involved
What was the most impactful class you took in school?
IA 45885 - Designing and Leading a Business (Capstone) - Prof. David Mawhinney, Prof. Arthur A. Boni
ISM 95791 - Data Mining (Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning) - Prof. Dr. Artur Dubrawski
What's something you wish you had done years earlier?
Workout more often, meditate more often, procrastinate less often
If money were not an issue, what would you be doing right now?
Investing in more startups while building my own from my Yatch docked on Cap d'Antibes
What words of advice would you give your younger self?
Patience, young padawan
What's your super power?
Business strategy
What's the most creative thing you've ever done?
Created new corporate innovation methodology that rapidly accelerates sustaining innovation at a very low cost
Which founders or startups do you most admire?
- Investing platforms: YCombinator, Angel List
- Investors: WIP List
- Startups: WIP List
What's an obstacle you've overcome?
Best explained by the great philosopher Drake in his work "Started from the bottom"
What's your favorite non-business book?
- Meditations by Marcus Aurelius
- The Prince by Niccolò Machiavelli
- Finite and Infinite Games by James Carse
- The Stress-Proof Brain by Melanie Greenberg
- The Courage to Be Disliked by Ichiro Kishimi & Fumitake Koga
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