It’s on me, Jon said as he left the bar, leaving his credit card behind. Jon Cruz came only for a few minutes, he chatted with senior MDs and vice presidents before leaving for the weekend at his Hamptons beach house. Harry’s was a Wall Street institution, where senior bankers and CEOs lunched and closed some of the biggest mergers and financial deals.Īround twenty of us from the Distressed Debt Group congregated in the bar area. We had come to Harry’s Café & Steak, a five-minute walk from the Goldman building. “To my amazing associates, Craig and Radhika.” We lifted our glasses.Īs per distressed debt tradition, the entire group went out for drinks on the Friday night of the bonus announcement week. Radhika, take control.Ĭheers!’ Jonathan raised a toast. Should I talk about more personal stuff? He will happily discuss computer code for two hours if I let him. We post pictures all day or something ‘I am sure it is pretty high-tech behind the scenes.” ‘People think it is Facebook so there’s nothing to do. Not the most exciting job in the world,’ he said, his voice flat. ‘You have no idea what I am talking about, right?” How software components interact, basically.” Set of routines, protocols, and tools for building software applications. So much work, front-end interfaces,īack-end systems, underlying APIs.’ ‘APIS?”Īpplication program interface. ‘Must be tiring, flying so much,’ I said. Honeymoon! After a doden-odd Skype calls and meeting once over a day trip? A week in Bali with this man I am walking next to. Used it all up, actually.’ The word honeymoon caused a jolt in me. One week for the wedding.Ī couple of days after that at home in Mumbai. ‘So you just arrived yesterday from San Francisco?” I said. I felt overdressed in my sunflower outfit as other hotel guests roamed around in shorts and vests. We went down the walking path, with the hotel to our left and the Arabian Sea to our right. December sun lit up the hotel’s cottages, casting gentle shadows everywhere. Palm trees along the Marriott pool swayed green in the breeze. He is married to Anusha and is the father of twin boys, Shyam and Ishaan.
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