This content was created by GHION.AI . This content was uploaded by GHION.AI . This is a YouTube video titled "Amit Chatterjee: The Value of Putting on a Suit" created on November 24, 2010. It features Amit Chatterjee discussing his career journey, including his experiences at McKinsey & Company and SAP, and his transition to entrepreneurship.
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I think it's April 2000. I actually joined and actually put on a quote unquote suit and joined McKinsey and company. Perfect timing, right? Because that was as the market was crashing in that era. Spent a lot of time doing that, learning that, number one, there is value in putting on a suit and being able to credibly talk about strategy, international experience, managing disparate teams without actually owning payroll. And it became a great lesson for how to think critically and strategically. I was actually recruited out of there to then work at an even older company, SAP. 35 year old, 38 year old software company. I didn't even know what they did. I'd always say, what is SAP, right? It was actually three letters for German. And to this day I still don't know what they mean. But it's SAP. It's an enterprise software company. And I worked with a guy named Shia Agassi, who was one of these great intellectual brains who really is an entrepreneur's entrepreneur. And he sort of revitalized my desire while I was at SAP to go back and do something that I could do back to now saying taking consulting, taking the business of working at a Fortune 5000 company, to working in entrepreneurial startups. Could I create a new startup in a different way? And that's what led me to hurrah. Spent a wonderful amount of time really figuring out that what I had done in the different places of where I'd made mistakes, where I'd had tremendous successes, could all now be channeled into a new story and built it from the ground up.
