Kevin Tawil
👤 PersonAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
Lovely.
I mean, like a lot of Stanford Business School graduates at the time of my life, it was certainly not overly taxing.
I met a lot of people who become my lifelong friends.
And these are people who...
you work with, invest with, sit on boards with, or friends with, raise kids with.
Of the things you get out of an education, probably the most important was a core group of people that you end up spending the next 30 years with.
And that was fantastic.
I also got the opportunity to work as a case writer.
I call it my third year of business school.
So you talk about
Yeah, there weren't a lot at that point.
It was certainly Jim Southern, David Dodson, a couple of others.
Well, the search fund was sort of in the background a little bit during our two years of business school.
I hadn't really focused on it a lot.
When you went to be a case writer, did you know then you wanted to search?
Absolutely not.
I was more in the camp of I wanted to start a company.
So I wrote about this in my business school application, the desire to be an entrepreneur.
Certainly saw my father working in this tour during summers while I was at university at McGill.
Basically, I was my own boss.