Early Career
After doing his Masters he decided to join J M Financial Services (now J M Morgan Stanley) in Mumbai as a management trainee/intern in trading on the Indian Stock Market under Mr. Mahendra Kampani. After a two-year stint with J M Financial Services, when Siddhartha returned to Bangalore, his father gave him a good amount of money to start any business of his choice. Siddhartha promptly bought a stock market card for Rs 30,000 with it, along with a company called Sivan, as well as a site in the city in 1984 and turned it into a highly successful investment banking and stock broking company.
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