What I Gained from Attending EMFin at INSEAD with Kok

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It's tough, right? So because, uh, in private equity in my course of world, um, uh, it's not 9 to 5 job with some 96 job is pretty much, you know, you have if, if investment committees every kind of Tuesday of the week for my firm and we need to kind of sum it whatever you want to discuss at the committee on friday, uh, the day before. So it doesn't matter, you're working nine AM to six AM on nine p.m. To six a.m. It doesn't matter. All that matters is that you get your stuff done and then you can have some it your findings and new religions, uh, in a nice package for the community discuss in the following week. I think when you're in private equity and in my cost of the work, you know, a lot of times we keep having the head of private equity investor on. The reality is a very enter, enter into the auction process. You know, you have an asset available for sale and you're looking to acquire it. You won't be the bully one and you'll be one of the many right? That's just looking to acquire it asset. So typically as a private equity firm, we can only think what a private equity firm will do. So we're renting or what is the competing firms, you know, angle into the transaction and what the cost of capital was expected with the return and so on. Often I know we find very hard to actually think from the perspective of a corporate right? So imagine you have a very simple business, uh, a childcare business uh in Africa, for example, Yes, you have private equity firms looking at an investment, but you will also have maybe childcare service provider in ASia looking to expand. In Africa, for example, you go into this program getting yourself to look at the same thing on friday different perspective, and that's my biggest takeaway in my view.