His interests include swimming, yoga, adventure sports, quizzing and travelling. Deep Kalra the Founder, Group Chairman and Group CEO of India’s online travel company, MakeMyTrip Ltd, successfully listed it on NASDAQ in August 2010. He shares with M.Rajendran his learning from piggybank investment.
Who told you to invest and save?
I think growing up in a middle-class family, these are things you pick up pretty young. You look closely at your parents’ habits, their value-system and imbibe a lot of things just by observing – so it pretty much worked out the same way for me.
Did you have piggy bank as a child?
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