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I’m fascinated with history’s thinker-doers: Cicero, Marcus Aurelius, Benjamin Franklin. There’s no greater achievement than calling your shots: laying out a theoretical worldview, then executing ruthlessly to bend reality. There exist people like this today, who write a manifesto and go build a $100B company on top. And I’m...

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The reading of today is taken from the Book of 1 Samuel 8:10-18, and we read: 10 Samuel told all the words of the Lord to the people who were asking him for a king. 11 He said, “This is what the king who will reign over you will claim as his rights: He will take your sons and make them serve with his chariots and horses, and they will run in front of his chariots. 12 Some he will assign to be commanders of thousands and commanders of fifties, and others to plow his ground and reap his harvest, and still others to make weapons of war and equipment for his chariots. 13 He will take your daughters to be perfumers and cooks and bakers. 14 He will take the best of your fields and vineyards and olive groves and give them to his attendants. 15 He will take a tenth of your grain and of your vintage and give it to his officials and attendants. 16 Your male and female servants and the best of your cattle and donkeys he will take for his own use. 17 He will take a tenth of your flocks, and you yourselves will become his slaves. 18 When that day comes, you will cry out for relief from the king you have chosen, but the Lord will not answer you in that day.” And this is the word of the Lord.

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Wall Street Apes

28,634 views • 9 months ago

For years, I’ve said the best and brightest no longer want to grind on Wall Street. They want to own enduring, profitable businesses and invest in small-town America. John Mahony is a perfect example. A year ago, he bought an HVAC company in Greeneville, Tennessee, where he now lives and works. A Marine Corps veteran, Wharton MBA, and Goldman Sachs alum, John could have done anything. But he chose to bet on Main Street, and the results speak for themselves. Many have been skeptical about whether people like John can succeed on Main Street. His story proves they can—and will. Today, I visited Bailey Heating and Air, where John cut the ribbon on a new, larger location. In just over a year, he’s grown the business and reinvested in the local community. This is the beginning of a new wave of American entrepreneurship. I’m so grateful to have friends and clients like John who are reshaping Main Street and rebuilding our communities.
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For years, I’ve said the best and brightest no longer want to grind on Wall Street. They want to own enduring, profitable businesses and invest in small-town America. John Mahony is a perfect example. A year ago, he bought an HVAC company in Greeneville, Tennessee, where he now lives and works. A Marine Corps veteran, Wharton MBA, and Goldman Sachs alum, John could have done anything. But he chose to bet on Main Street, and the results speak for themselves. Many have been skeptical about whether people like John can succeed on Main Street. His story proves they can—and will. Today, I visited Bailey Heating and Air, where John cut the ribbon on a new, larger location. In just over a year, he’s grown the business and reinvested in the local community. This is the beginning of a new wave of American entrepreneurship. I’m so grateful to have friends and clients like John who are reshaping Main Street and rebuilding our communities.

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83,590 views • 1 year ago

#MufudziYoungBrahmanRancher He is only 14 years old and goes to Peterhouse for his secondary school education, one of Zimbabwe's top private schools in Marondera. Yet Mufudzi Kamusasa, as his name suggests, is already a cattle rancher and a young entrepreneur; an emerging dedicated Brahman breeder with a small growing herd of 12. By the time he finishes school, his herd will be much bigger as he aims to be a force to reckon in the business. In July, Kamusasa is sending one of his bulls to a national stock sale event. He is farming at his father's 450 hectares ranch in Headlands, about 137 kilometres east of Harare, in Manicaland province. Kamusasa, who has been set into the business by his father, says he is working hard and striving to use the best genetics available to be a stud breeder of note. His dream is to become one of the best Brahman breeders, not just in Zimbabwe, but also in the world. The NewsHawks spoke to Kamusasa about his business and passion.
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TheNewsHawks

175,434 views • 2 years ago

Lately, it's become a trend to talk about Carlos as if he only started learning to play tennis well (for some, even to be educated) at 15. As if one coach is the only responsible for his success and for who he is in every aspect. Meanwhile, this was Carlos at age 10 in Murcia. One can acknowledge the work of a coach and give him credit without diminishing the player, who is the one holding the racket and coming back in historic 5: 30 hours finals, as if he didn't exist or have anything to do with his own success or who he is. A world number one, the youngest in history, isn't solely the work of a coach. Is also the work of his family, all his team and people, but above all, it's HIS OWN WORK, his talent, his commitment to his dream, and his constant sacrifice since childhood. Even if every now and then he has the audacity to need to rest for a few days with his friends or family.
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Lately, it's become a trend to talk about Carlos as if he only started learning to play tennis well (for some, even to be educated) at 15. As if one coach is the only responsible for his success and for who he is in every aspect. Meanwhile, this was Carlos at age 10 in Murcia. One can acknowledge the work of a coach and give him credit without diminishing the player, who is the one holding the racket and coming back in historic 5: 30 hours finals, as if he didn't exist or have anything to do with his own success or who he is. A world number one, the youngest in history, isn't solely the work of a coach. Is also the work of his family, all his team and people, but above all, it's HIS OWN WORK, his talent, his commitment to his dream, and his constant sacrifice since childhood. Even if every now and then he has the audacity to need to rest for a few days with his friends or family.

Carlos Alcaraz Daily

69,919 views • 6 months ago

Andrei Tarkovsky on Ingmar Bergman's Shame (1968): "Let us look at Bergman's Shame. The film doesn't contain a single 'actor's piece' for the performer to 'give away' the director's purpose, to play the conception of the persona, his attitude to it, to assess it in relation to the overall idea; and the latter is entirely hidden within the dynamic of the characters' lives, at one with it. The people in the film are crushed by circumstances; they act only in accordance with their situation, to which they themselves are subordinate; they make no attempt to proffer us any idea, any perspective on what is happening, or to draw any conclusion. All of that is left to the film as a whole, to the director's vision. And how superbly it is accomplished! You cannot say in simple terms who amongst them is good or bad. I could never say that von Sydow is a bad man. They are all partly good and partly bad, each in his own way. No judgements are passed, because there is no hint of tendentiousness in any of the actors, and the circumstances of the film are used by the director to explore the human possibilities which they test, and not for a moment in order to illustrate a thesis. Max von Sydow's character is developed with masterly power. He is a very good man; a musician; kind and sensitive. It turns out that he is a coward. But by no means every bold man is a good human being, and cowards are not always scoundrels. Of course, he is weak and irresolute. His wife is far stronger than he, so much so that she can overcome her fear. The hero lacks that strength. He is tormented by his own weakness, vulnerability, lack of resilience; he tries to hide, to cower in a corner, not to see and not to hear; and he does this like a child, naively and with complete sincerity. But when circumstances nevertheless force him to defend himself, he instantly turns into a scoundrel. He loses all that was best in him; but the drama and absurdity of his situation is that as he is now he becomes necessary to his wife, who, in her turn, looks to him for protection and succour instead of despising him as she always had. When he beats her about the face and says 'Get out!' she goes crawling after him. There is something here of the age-old idea of passive good and active evil; but its expression is immensely complex. At the beginning of the film the hero cannot even kill a chicken, but as soon as he has found a way of defending himself he becomes a cruel cynic. He has something of Hamlet: my view is that the Prince of Denmark perishes not as a result of the duel, when he dies physically, but immediately after the 'rat' scene, when he understands how irreversible are those laws of life which have forced him, a man of humanity and intellect, to act like the inferior people who inhabit Elsinore. Von Sydow is now a sinister character, afraid of nothing: he kills; will not raise a finger to save his fellows; pursues only his own interests. The point is that you have to be a person of great integrity to feel fear in the face of the foul necessity to kill and humiliate. And by shedding that fear and apparently acquiring courage, a person in fact loses his spiritual strength and intellectual honesty and parts from his innocence. War is the obvious catalyst for the cruel, anti-human elements in people. Bergman uses the war in this film exactly as he uses the heroine's illness in Through a Glass Darkly: to explore his view of man." — "Sculpting in Time" by Andrei Tarkovsky (translated by Kitty Hunter-Blair, 1987)
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Andrei Tarkovsky on Ingmar Bergman's Shame (1968): "Let us look at Bergman's Shame. The film doesn't contain a single 'actor's piece' for the performer to 'give away' the director's purpose, to play the conception of the persona, his attitude to it, to assess it in relation to the overall idea; and the latter is entirely hidden within the dynamic of the characters' lives, at one with it. The people in the film are crushed by circumstances; they act only in accordance with their situation, to which they themselves are subordinate; they make no attempt to proffer us any idea, any perspective on what is happening, or to draw any conclusion. All of that is left to the film as a whole, to the director's vision. And how superbly it is accomplished! You cannot say in simple terms who amongst them is good or bad. I could never say that von Sydow is a bad man. They are all partly good and partly bad, each in his own way. No judgements are passed, because there is no hint of tendentiousness in any of the actors, and the circumstances of the film are used by the director to explore the human possibilities which they test, and not for a moment in order to illustrate a thesis. Max von Sydow's character is developed with masterly power. He is a very good man; a musician; kind and sensitive. It turns out that he is a coward. But by no means every bold man is a good human being, and cowards are not always scoundrels. Of course, he is weak and irresolute. His wife is far stronger than he, so much so that she can overcome her fear. The hero lacks that strength. He is tormented by his own weakness, vulnerability, lack of resilience; he tries to hide, to cower in a corner, not to see and not to hear; and he does this like a child, naively and with complete sincerity. But when circumstances nevertheless force him to defend himself, he instantly turns into a scoundrel. He loses all that was best in him; but the drama and absurdity of his situation is that as he is now he becomes necessary to his wife, who, in her turn, looks to him for protection and succour instead of despising him as she always had. When he beats her about the face and says 'Get out!' she goes crawling after him. There is something here of the age-old idea of passive good and active evil; but its expression is immensely complex. At the beginning of the film the hero cannot even kill a chicken, but as soon as he has found a way of defending himself he becomes a cruel cynic. He has something of Hamlet: my view is that the Prince of Denmark perishes not as a result of the duel, when he dies physically, but immediately after the 'rat' scene, when he understands how irreversible are those laws of life which have forced him, a man of humanity and intellect, to act like the inferior people who inhabit Elsinore. Von Sydow is now a sinister character, afraid of nothing: he kills; will not raise a finger to save his fellows; pursues only his own interests. The point is that you have to be a person of great integrity to feel fear in the face of the foul necessity to kill and humiliate. And by shedding that fear and apparently acquiring courage, a person in fact loses his spiritual strength and intellectual honesty and parts from his innocence. War is the obvious catalyst for the cruel, anti-human elements in people. Bergman uses the war in this film exactly as he uses the heroine's illness in Through a Glass Darkly: to explore his view of man." — "Sculpting in Time" by Andrei Tarkovsky (translated by Kitty Hunter-Blair, 1987)

RadiantFilm

27,723 views • 5 months ago

Paypal co-founder Peter Thiel offers a contrarian view on mastery: the best founders aren't specialists, they're polymaths who understand how everything connects. After 14 years on the Facebook board, Thiel has watched Mark Zuckerberg up close. And he's noticed something that cuts against conventional wisdom about what it takes to build something great. "I think that one kind of perspective for a lot of the world-class entrepreneurs is they're not specialists. They're something close to polymaths." Thiel uses Zuckerberg as his prime example: "If you have a conversation with Mark Zuckerberg, he'd be able to speak with a surprising amount of understanding about a lot of things. He could talk about the details of the Facebook product, the psychology of social media, the way the culture is shifting, the management of the company, and how this fits into the bigger history of technology." This stands in stark contrast to how academia frames expertise: "Whereas the sort of academic view is often that you're like a narrow expert on one thing and that's what you do and what it is about. It's much more this polymath-like intellect who understands all these different things." Peter Thiel reflects on what this has looked like at the board level: "The kinds of board conversations we've had over the last 13, 14 years, it's just been this crazy range." The takeaway: world-class founders don't just go deep in one area. They think across product, psychology, culture, management, and technology history, and they see how it all connects.
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Paypal co-founder Peter Thiel offers a contrarian view on mastery: the best founders aren't specialists, they're polymaths who understand how everything connects. After 14 years on the Facebook board, Thiel has watched Mark Zuckerberg up close. And he's noticed something that cuts against conventional wisdom about what it takes to build something great. "I think that one kind of perspective for a lot of the world-class entrepreneurs is they're not specialists. They're something close to polymaths." Thiel uses Zuckerberg as his prime example: "If you have a conversation with Mark Zuckerberg, he'd be able to speak with a surprising amount of understanding about a lot of things. He could talk about the details of the Facebook product, the psychology of social media, the way the culture is shifting, the management of the company, and how this fits into the bigger history of technology." This stands in stark contrast to how academia frames expertise: "Whereas the sort of academic view is often that you're like a narrow expert on one thing and that's what you do and what it is about. It's much more this polymath-like intellect who understands all these different things." Peter Thiel reflects on what this has looked like at the board level: "The kinds of board conversations we've had over the last 13, 14 years, it's just been this crazy range." The takeaway: world-class founders don't just go deep in one area. They think across product, psychology, culture, management, and technology history, and they see how it all connects.

Big Brain Business

69,402 views • 2 months ago

Pope Leo reflects on the Resurrection, the 'very source of our faith and hope': "With great meekness, Jesus appears to the disciples to restore communion and manifest his love, which surpasses betrayal, wounds and even death. As a sign of this love, Jesus gives the Apostles two gifts: his peace and the Holy Spirit. “Peace be with you” he says as he shows them his wounds. This is done not to shame those who abadoned him, but to assure them of his forgiveness and love, and to teach them that his death on the cross has been transformed into a sign of hope. In the giving of the Holy Spirit, Jesus entrusts the Apostles with the task of being his instruments in the world. This lesson is important for each of us: God forgives us, he raises us up, and sends us out anew. May we too be joyful witnesses of the resurrection by bringing the peace, hope and love of Christ to a broken world."
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Pope Leo reflects on the Resurrection, the 'very source of our faith and hope': "With great meekness, Jesus appears to the disciples to restore communion and manifest his love, which surpasses betrayal, wounds and even death. As a sign of this love, Jesus gives the Apostles two gifts: his peace and the Holy Spirit. “Peace be with you” he says as he shows them his wounds. This is done not to shame those who abadoned him, but to assure them of his forgiveness and love, and to teach them that his death on the cross has been transformed into a sign of hope. In the giving of the Holy Spirit, Jesus entrusts the Apostles with the task of being his instruments in the world. This lesson is important for each of us: God forgives us, he raises us up, and sends us out anew. May we too be joyful witnesses of the resurrection by bringing the peace, hope and love of Christ to a broken world."

Vatican News

29,471 views • 9 months ago

In it’s heyday, Goldman’s special situations group was the navy SEALs of money making. Today’s guest, Alan Waxman, used to run that group before leaving to build Sixth Street, now a $115b behemoth. SSG heads were sometimes of the more brainy, nerdy variety. Not Waxman. He is a force of nature and energy who apparently would pound around the SSG office, loudly and enthusiastically asking people “who is going to make us some money today?!” When I asked another SSG alum about Alan, he said his main memory was his remarkable nose for talent. Once, the smartest guy at SSG (which is saying something) was a mere entry level associate, 6 or 7 rungs in the hierarchy below Waxman. But, Waxman immediately recognized the raw talent and was joined to this associate at the hip. Under Waxman and his team, SSG produced an insane (so insane I can’t quote it!) percent of Goldman’s bottom line. In creating Sixth Street with his partners and team, he sought to recreate and expand the magic of the SSG days. Here, in his first interview of this type, he shares the entire story. I found Alan to be a singular force. His team is ridiculously talented, and nobody leaves (they’ve never lost a senior person). They’ve even built a unique pool of capital called Tao that sits atop the rest of the firm…tens of billions that can go anywhere and do anything as a permanent pool of money with no restrictions, other than to earn the highest risk adjusted returns possible. Sounds a lot like SSG. This was one of my favorite conversations this year. I hope you enjoy. Face the tiger! Timestamps 0:00 Intro 0:38 The Formative Goldman Sachs Experience 5:58 Unitizing Risk and Return 10:09 Facing the Tiger: Culture and Values 24:55 The Genesis of Sixth Street 34:09 Spotify and Airbnb Investments 37:52 The Flexibility of TAO 41:42 COVID-19: Playing Offense 44:42 Analyzing Risk and Business Models 48:35 Investing in Sports and Live Experiences 54:44 Developing Investment Themes 58:16 Personal Development and Firm Culture 1:19:00 The Future of Sixth Street 1:21:52 The Kindest Thing
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In it’s heyday, Goldman’s special situations group was the navy SEALs of money making. Today’s guest, Alan Waxman, used to run that group before leaving to build Sixth Street, now a $115b behemoth. SSG heads were sometimes of the more brainy, nerdy variety. Not Waxman. He is a force of nature and energy who apparently would pound around the SSG office, loudly and enthusiastically asking people “who is going to make us some money today?!” When I asked another SSG alum about Alan, he said his main memory was his remarkable nose for talent. Once, the smartest guy at SSG (which is saying something) was a mere entry level associate, 6 or 7 rungs in the hierarchy below Waxman. But, Waxman immediately recognized the raw talent and was joined to this associate at the hip. Under Waxman and his team, SSG produced an insane (so insane I can’t quote it!) percent of Goldman’s bottom line. In creating Sixth Street with his partners and team, he sought to recreate and expand the magic of the SSG days. Here, in his first interview of this type, he shares the entire story. I found Alan to be a singular force. His team is ridiculously talented, and nobody leaves (they’ve never lost a senior person). They’ve even built a unique pool of capital called Tao that sits atop the rest of the firm…tens of billions that can go anywhere and do anything as a permanent pool of money with no restrictions, other than to earn the highest risk adjusted returns possible. Sounds a lot like SSG. This was one of my favorite conversations this year. I hope you enjoy. Face the tiger! Timestamps 0:00 Intro 0:38 The Formative Goldman Sachs Experience 5:58 Unitizing Risk and Return 10:09 Facing the Tiger: Culture and Values 24:55 The Genesis of Sixth Street 34:09 Spotify and Airbnb Investments 37:52 The Flexibility of TAO 41:42 COVID-19: Playing Offense 44:42 Analyzing Risk and Business Models 48:35 Investing in Sports and Live Experiences 54:44 Developing Investment Themes 58:16 Personal Development and Firm Culture 1:19:00 The Future of Sixth Street 1:21:52 The Kindest Thing

Patrick OShaughnessy

769,086 views • 1 year ago

This short episode is from a talk given by Peter D. Kaufman on the multidisciplinary approach to thinking. Peter has one of the best track records in business history, but prefers to stay out of the spotlight. There is a simple takeaway. Using a multidisciplinary understanding of things, Peter identifies two often overlooked, parabolic “Big Ideas”: 1. Mirrored Reciprocation (go positive and go first); and 2. Compound Interest (constant progress over a long time) A great “Life Hack” is to simply combine these two into one basic approach to living your life: “Go positive and go first, and be constant in doing it.” There may be no better formula for living the best life you could possibly live.
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This short episode is from a talk given by Peter D. Kaufman on the multidisciplinary approach to thinking. Peter has one of the best track records in business history, but prefers to stay out of the spotlight. There is a simple takeaway. Using a multidisciplinary understanding of things, Peter identifies two often overlooked, parabolic “Big Ideas”: 1. Mirrored Reciprocation (go positive and go first); and 2. Compound Interest (constant progress over a long time) A great “Life Hack” is to simply combine these two into one basic approach to living your life: “Go positive and go first, and be constant in doing it.” There may be no better formula for living the best life you could possibly live.

Shane Parrish

79,131 views • 6 months ago

Newt Gingrich proclaims Trump as a world figure on par with Roosevelt and Churchill after historic peace deal: "I think President Trump is now moving into being a world figure in the sense that President Franklin Roosevelt and Prime Minister Winston Churchill were. He is achieving an orchestration of all the major Arab states in support of a peace agreement, and he is bringing enough pressure to bear on Benjamin Netanyahu that the Israelis are going to go along whether they want to or not. As a result, he is creating a sort of forge of peace out of the sheer pressure of his personality and his ability to build friendships. If this works—and I suspect it will—you are going to see a moment in history that literally puts him in the same league as Franklin Roosevelt and Winston Churchill."
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Newt Gingrich proclaims Trump as a world figure on par with Roosevelt and Churchill after historic peace deal: "I think President Trump is now moving into being a world figure in the sense that President Franklin Roosevelt and Prime Minister Winston Churchill were. He is achieving an orchestration of all the major Arab states in support of a peace agreement, and he is bringing enough pressure to bear on Benjamin Netanyahu that the Israelis are going to go along whether they want to or not. As a result, he is creating a sort of forge of peace out of the sheer pressure of his personality and his ability to build friendships. If this works—and I suspect it will—you are going to see a moment in history that literally puts him in the same league as Franklin Roosevelt and Winston Churchill."

A Man Of Memes

31,357 views • 7 months ago

.Newt Gingrich proclaims Trump as a world figure on par with Roosevelt and Churchill after historic peace deal: "I think President Trump is now moving into being a world figure in the sense that President Franklin Roosevelt and Prime Minister Winston Churchill were. He is achieving an orchestration of all the major Arab states in support of a peace agreement, and he is bringing enough pressure to bear on Benjamin Netanyahu that the Israelis are going to go along whether they want to or not. As a result, he is creating a sort of forge of peace out of the sheer pressure of his personality and his ability to build friendships. If this works—and I suspect it will—you are going to see a moment in history that literally puts him in the same league as Franklin Roosevelt and Winston Churchill."
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.Newt Gingrich proclaims Trump as a world figure on par with Roosevelt and Churchill after historic peace deal: "I think President Trump is now moving into being a world figure in the sense that President Franklin Roosevelt and Prime Minister Winston Churchill were. He is achieving an orchestration of all the major Arab states in support of a peace agreement, and he is bringing enough pressure to bear on Benjamin Netanyahu that the Israelis are going to go along whether they want to or not. As a result, he is creating a sort of forge of peace out of the sheer pressure of his personality and his ability to build friendships. If this works—and I suspect it will—you are going to see a moment in history that literally puts him in the same league as Franklin Roosevelt and Winston Churchill."

Sean Hannity 🇺🇸

306,375 views • 9 months ago

On this weeks episode of The Money Mindset, I had a chance to sit down with billionaire investor, entrepreneur, philanthopher and life coach Mohnish Pabrai ✨ What started off as a conversation about his investing journey turned out to be a masterclass in behavioural finance, psychology and how to develop the billionaire mindset 🚀 We spoke about :- -lessons from his friendship and association with Warren buffet and charlie munger -how and why he paid 650,000$ for lunch with Warren buffet which turned out to be a bargain -what is your inner scorecard and why does it matter? -adopting the stoic philosophy -the big investment bets he took recently in markets like turkey -what is the meaning of a life well lived ? -his investment framework and how he appraoaches Indian markets Full episode releases on Thursday 27th Feb on The Money Mindset
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On this weeks episode of The Money Mindset, I had a chance to sit down with billionaire investor, entrepreneur, philanthopher and life coach Mohnish Pabrai ✨ What started off as a conversation about his investing journey turned out to be a masterclass in behavioural finance, psychology and how to develop the billionaire mindset 🚀 We spoke about :- -lessons from his friendship and association with Warren buffet and charlie munger -how and why he paid 650,000$ for lunch with Warren buffet which turned out to be a bargain -what is your inner scorecard and why does it matter? -adopting the stoic philosophy -the big investment bets he took recently in markets like turkey -what is the meaning of a life well lived ? -his investment framework and how he appraoaches Indian markets Full episode releases on Thursday 27th Feb on The Money Mindset

Sonia Shenoy

58,289 views • 1 year ago