My Worst Investment Ever Podcast

BIO: Pankaj Jathar is the CEO of Prione, a company established in 2014 which enables small and medium businesses to grow in e-commerce. STORY: About 12 years ago, Pankaj invested in a company he saw journalists recommending on TV. He didn’t do any research and believed the reporters 100%. The stock price tanked a month later. Pankaj sold his stock a year later after taking a 75% capital loss. LEAR...

BIO: Kamal Krishna is the founder and CEO of MOBILISE, Bangalore’s fastest-growing advertising & B2B marketing agency. STORY: Kamal was looking to diversify his business. He partnered with a former colleague who had the talent he was looking for. Unfortunately, he had a negative attitude towards entrepreneurship and never delivered the end of his bargain. Kamal had to cut him out and count his...

BIO: Amit Kumar is the CEO of OLX Autos India. He is an entrepreneur, a business leader, and a speaker. STORY: Amit took an employee under his wing and mentored him for a couple of years. The employee later found another opportunity and had to leave the company. Amit decided to offer the employee some feedback during his sendoff party. The employee didn’t receive his feedback so well. The employee...

BIO: Stu Heinecke is a bestselling author, one of the Wall Street Journal’s cartoonists, and a twice-nominated hall of fame marketer. STORY: When Stu started his first business, he stuck to one-to-one leverage, making it impossible to scale his business even though he had some of the most elite clients. LEARNING: You cannot scale your business without the right team. Never cling to one-to-one leve...

BIO: Atul Sethi is the founder and managing partner of Farnam Tree, an investment advisor based in Bangkok, which is currently under pre-licensing. STORY: Atul bought stock in a retail business, but the share price plummeted due to poor corporate governance. He kept holding onto the stock in the hopes that the price would go back to what he’d bought it. Instead, it kept going down, and he lost a s...

BIO: Paul Smith is an independent corporate director and private investor with significant experience in the Financial Services and Investment Funds industries. He served as President and global CEO of CFA Institute from 2015 to 2019. STORY: Paul and his friends put in money to start a hedge fund seeding business in Hong Kong. The financial crisis hit just when they had received about 40% funding...

BIO: James Foo has been seasoned by nearly three decades of hard knocks and life-worthy experiences. He offers a unique view of life in entrepreneurship, with valuable insights and advice from a panoramic view of things that can save you time and help your company grow. STORY: James badly wanted to be rich, and so when he saw his friend’s dad selling this incredible new machinery, he wanted to joi...

BIO: Padmini Janaki is the CEO and Co-founder of Mind&Mom, an AI app that predicts pregnancy abnormalities and cures. STORY: Padmini chased success with everything she had because she believed that’s what she was born and raised to do. It wasn’t until she forgot to feed her daughter that she realized she’d been chasing the wrong thing. LEARNING: Nothing or nobody is as important as you are. So...

BIO: Bryan Clayton is CEO and co-founder of GreenPal, an online marketplace that connects homeowners with local lawn care professionals. STORY: Bryan learned about Bitcoin from an employee who claimed to be a miner. He invested $10,000 without further research. Their Bitcoin wallet was hacked six months later, and he lost his entire investment. LEARNING: Don’t do anything unless your whole heart a...

BIO: Puja Talesara Bhandari is an internationally certified Life and Executive coach recognized globally for her out-of-the-box thinking and result-based approach. STORY: Puja put her heart and soul for six months, only for it to be scrapped just 14 hours before its launch. She wasted another two months following up on why the project was canceled instead of moving on to other active projects. LEA...

BIO: Dr. Harish Pant brings thirty-eight years of global and Indian experience spanning aerospace and defense, aviation, automotive, steel, engineering plastics, lightweighting and composites, industrial design, engineering services, and infra-trade. STORY: Harish was a rising star, excelling in his profession and the youngest department head. Out of nowhere, a senior person was transferred to his...

BIO: Adrian Choo is the One and Only Career Strategist in Asia and is the founder of Career Agility International. In three years, he helped more than one thousand clients successfully achieve clarity to enjoy a happier and even more successful career. STORY: Adrian and his friend started a technology company that ran for three years. They had to call it quits when they couldn’t scale the business...

BIO: Shang Saavedra reached the ability to be work-optional by the time she was 31 years old by focusing on increasing her income, lowering her expenses, and investing all her savings. STORY: Shang was ill-advised to buy a life insurance policy with the promise of getting 6-7% returns. She trusted the financial advisor without doing any research on the policy. The policy is barely making any retur...

BIO: Patrick Huey is a CERTIFIED FINANCIAL PLANNER™ professional, Chartered Advisor in Philanthropy®, and an Accredited Tax Preparer. STORY: Patrick bought a technology stock based on rumor and peer recommendation. He didn’t do any research and the stock ended up losing value. LEARNING: Don't just come into an investment seeking an investment, seek an outcome. Overestimate your risks and underesti...

BIO: Jacent Wamala is a licensed marriage and family therapist turned money mindset coach and wealth & wellness university founder. STORY: Jacent accumulated huge student loans while in graduate school in her pursuit to fulfill societal expectations. LEARNING: Put boundaries, stipulations, and structure in your life. Have a clear vision about where you want to be.   "Don’t focus on receiv...

BIO: Ajinkya Kulkarni is the co-founder and CEO of WintWealth. His company offers high net-worth individuals and retail investors asset-backed fixed income products that provide higher returns than fixed bank deposits. STORY: Ajinkya gave money to a friend who promised to give him a return of nine percent every month. After receiving returns for about a year, payments stopped. He never got back th...

BIO: Neil Twa is the founder and CEO of Voltage Digital Marketing. He has been launching, operating, and growing private label e-commerce businesses for the last nine years. STORY: Neil partnered with a local community on a project he believed would be a gamechanger. He found out that he was being defrauded and had to quit the project losing his entire investment. LEARNING: Get a mentor. Know the...

BIO: Jofin Joseph is a third-time entrepreneur who chose education and early childhood development as an area to work within his new startup, Totto Learning. STORY: Jofin and his friends closed their startup after college to seek employment. After two years, they realized that they learned more from their startup than from their jobs, so they quit and returned to their startup. LEARNING: Today's t...

BIO: As founder and CEO at Stack, Smriti Tomar strives to make investing accessible and affordable for India's 440 million millennials to help them save for their life goals. STORY: Smriti took feedback from investors and used it to change her product. Customers hated the new version. After listening to her customers, she had to put in more time and money to build the product the customers—not inv...

BIO: Michelle Seiler Tucker is the Founder and CEO of Seiler Tucker Incorporated. She owns many businesses in several different industries. As a 20-year veteran in the M&A industry, she is regarded as the leading authority on buying, selling, fixing, and growing businesses. STORY: Michelle met a business leader at a conference, and he convinced her and others to invest in a tech company in Sou...

BIO: Harry Spaight is a Keynote Speaker, Coach, and Author of Selling with Dignity-Your Formula for Life-Changing Sales Results. STORY: Harry invested in mobile homes in Georgia without researching. He trusted a young man he knew through the father. In just three months, the houses were run down, and the tenants refused to pay rent. Harry lost over $100,000 that he’d made from selling his home. LE...

BIO: Satima Meanlamai, nicknamed Tao, is the founder of the Vietnam Value Investor group, Thailand. STORY: When Satima started investing in the stock market, she’d only invest in companies she liked and hardly took time to study other stocks or learn more about the companies she invested in. Though lucky initially, this investment strategy didn’t work out for Satima in the long run, and she lost a...

BIO: Jack McColl, the founder of Credit Stacking, has the knowledge and in-depth understanding of the credit stacking strategy. He has mentored thousands of entrepreneurs and been a part of growing multiple 7-figure businesses. STORY: Jack lived in Bali for three months when he was 26. He saw an opportunity to create an Airbnb business there, got a few houses, and hired locals to help manage day-t...

BIO: Donald Cohen is the founder of doncohenconsulting.com. He is collaboratively empowering LinkedIn proficiency and performance. STORY: Donald opened a successful store in Detroit and sold it after four years. He and his girlfriend got married and moved to Denver, where he decided to open a similar store. He didn’t realize that the two markets were different, and he couldn’t replicate his Detroi...

BIO: Collin Mitchell is a 4x Founder, Father of 4, and host of Sales Transformation. STORY: Collin’s first business was a huge success, bringing in annual revenues of $5 million in just 26 months. He decided to diversify the business and got into print services, something he had zero experience in. He hired a consultant to help him do the job and paid him tens of thousands of dollars. Unfortunatel...