Our guest this week on the Absolutely Write podcast is Pratik Oswal, who is currently the CEO of Glide Invest, an online investment platform. He also heads Motilal Oswal Mutual Fund’s passive funds business (ETFs + Index Funds).

Before this, he was heading operations and finance at a Series A fintech startup in San Francisco, CA. The company was backed by prominent investors such as Y-Combinator, Khosla Ventures, Anthemis, Chicago Board of Exchange (CBoE), and many others. The company provided automated wealth solutions to investment advisors and managed over $400 million in assets.

Apart from fintech, Pratik has experience working in Investment Banking, PE, and Hedge Funds. He studied math and economics at Emory University and has an MBA from LBS.

Aditi analyses Pratik's handwriting and talks about his learnability and love for intellectual challenges. Pratik talks about his need for stimulation over success, why he thinks failure is the best teacher and shares some incredible insights and tips that will help us to invest better. Don't miss out on the power of compounding. Tune in!