Consulting & VC interviews
Case practice with someone who spent six years running Bain cases and now sits on the investing side. We work on structure and judgement, not memorised frameworks.
Coaching slots open this month
Paarth Mehra
VC at Merak Capital · Ex-Bain · CFA Charterholder
I invest in tech and gaming companies across the GCC. Before that, seven years at Bain advising private equity funds and sovereign wealth on where to put their money. I write about both — and I coach people trying to get in.
Track record
- Now
- AVP, Merak Capital — Tech & Gaming funds, Riyadh
- Before
- Bain & Company, 6+ years to Senior Project Leader
- Coverage
- KSA, UAE and the wider GCC
- Qualified
- CFA Charterholder · MBA, IIM Udaipur
- Coached
- 20+ IIM graduates on resumes and interviews
Two things I write about
Investing & Strategy
Venture capital in the GCC, commercial due diligence, and what actually happens to a portfolio company after the wire clears.
Careers
Consulting and VC interviews, MBA admissions, and resumes that survive a real screen — from someone who has run both sides of it.
Latest
- Investing & Strategy
What a commercial due diligence is really checking
Buyers think they are buying the model. They are usually buying an assumption about customer behaviour that nobody has tested.
- Careers
The case interview tests structure, not frameworks
Memorised frameworks are why strong candidates plateau. What the interviewer is grading is something narrower.
- Investing & Strategy
The work starts after the wire clears
Value creation in venture is mostly unglamorous: introductions, hiring, and getting the next round started nine months early.
- Careers
Your resume gets eight seconds. Most of it is spent on the wrong lines
Bullets that describe the task instead of the result are the single most common reason a strong profile gets screened out.
Coaching
MBA admissions
Positioning, school selection, and essays that sound like you rather than like the other two thousand applications from your industry.
Resume & profile review
A line-by-line rewrite of your resume and LinkedIn, aimed at the eight-second screen that decides whether a human reads either.
Work with me
Book a call, or tell me what you are working on.
A thirty-minute call is the fastest way to work out whether I am useful to you. If you would rather write first, a paragraph about where you are stuck is plenty.