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Ep #7 | Who is Kiran Mazumdar Shaw Really? And WTF is Biotech?

WTF is with Nikhil Kamath

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How John Helped Me Buy Unilever Shares

I've spent some time with John. He's so comfortable in his own skin that because you were always like this protagonist of the story, who everybody associated with Biocon. But he never wanted any attention. And he was never insecure of it. Yeah. So I think that was his greatness. When John and I, so finally I got, John helped me to buy the shares out of Unilever. That was in 1998. By the year 2000, we had basically done a back-to-back deal with ICICI. We managed to sell 10% for $2 million to Unilever - super deal then arbitrage.

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