Manthan Shah

private equity investor & author of Unstoppable (Penguin Random House). Get your copy now 🔽

[Manthan Shah @manthanshh]

@mishradidi Being honest but measured has helped me. In a job offer setting, not saying a clear no but something like “the other thing aligns with my current goals/feels more time sensitive and exciting rn, so let me give it a shot and come back to you in six months” is not a bad response.

[Manthan Shah @manthanshh]

@0xjitukamble Hi Jitesh, good stuff on this initiative. Looking for:
Budget - <55k
Area - Indiranagar
Type - spacious apartment?
Lmk if we have any leads.

[Manthan Shah @manthanshh]

@raghavgoyal97 Hey Raghav, just DMed you. Please check.

[Manthan Shah @manthanshh]

Came across this excellent article by @ssmumbai. Makes me wanna write a follow up article to my book, to remind the many young, ambitious overachievers paralysed with anxiety that life need not be extraordinary to be meaningful.

[Nassim Nicholas Taleb @nntaleb]

Sudden distrust after a long period of trust is irreversible.

[vivek @itsreallyvivek]

https://t.co/ZhOgyq7Vgn

[Pankaj @the2ndfloorguy]

i hooked my whoop to my work calendar to find which coworker gives me the most stress 🚨

thanks to fable, I reverse engineered whoop to pull per minute heart rate. nd matched spikes with cal events and attendees

I now have a leaderboard and I think about it daily.

few info masked for obvious reasons ;)

[Manthan Shah @manthanshh]

overheard at HK airport after an Indian denied immigration. Officer says “this is HK, everything has to match exactly”. Man calls his agent cursing “bhai tune Anjali ka gender ‘Male’ tick kiya. Naya bana ke bhej.”

We are a jugaad civilisation operating in a checkbox world. 🙈🇮🇳

[Manthan Shah @manthanshh]

@homsiT Thank you - this is the only acceptable Obsidian alternative I will support!

[Manthan Shah @manthanshh]

Reached out to India’s Amb to China for tea, like I did with Amb Rawat, who has since retired. Turns out Amb Doraiswami isn’t in Beijing yet, so India technically has no Amb to China atm.
2 nuclear neighbours. $120B in trade. And the seat is empty.
Office transitions are funny.

[Tanmay Shah 🚀 Rocklaz @tanmayshah28]

I pledged a paid subscription to @manthanshh ’s Substack
Very interesting. Would recommend you to subscribe too!
https://t.co/thVRuJb4yo

[Manthan Shah @manthanshh]

If you’re a PE investor, operator, founder — I’d love to learn from you too.

Follow along - From Beijing to Bombay: notes from my current obsession with private equity investing https://t.co/rPN29vr2Jj

[Manthan Shah @manthanshh]

THREAD 🧵
Three years ago, on a 24-hour train from Kunming to Beijing, I wrote one question that changed my life:
“What would private equity look like if it was aligned with India’s climate + growth story?”

What I’ve learned so far in the new post: 👇
https://t.co/jGbgxBkqhB

[Manthan Shah @manthanshh]

What I’ll be sharing next
🔹 Founder case studies (People lens)
🔹 Mid-market investing models (Business lens)
🔹 India-China pattern recognition (Systems lens)
🔹 Stories from shop floors, field sites, clusters
🔹 The real lessons behind building & scaling