KL Rahul: Anticipating post-cricket income drop spurred business investing during COVID
KL Rahul · Ep. #19 | WTF is “Making it” in an Offbeat Career? Nikhil Kamath Ft. Kriti Sanon, Badshah & KL Rahul · Nikhil Kamath · Aug 23, 2024 · at 2:18:19
Indian cricketer KL Rahul explains how career mortality motivated him to start investing in businesses to secure post-retirement income.
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“That's something that is that's part of the reason why I've you know, I've, Started thinking about businesses and started thinking about investing my money, right? So my life after cricket can be taken care of. I know there'll be a huge dip in the amount I earn once I finish cricket. So yeah, that's where, and COVID for me happened at that right, right time where it gave me time to sit and really do some research about how can I invest money?”
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