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items: Dropping Some Knowledge at Aikya Connect
items: Finding Your Tribe
items: The Wealth Management Industry Is About to Get AI’d.
items: The Tweet That Broke My Timeline (And It Wasn’t a Ferrari)
items: The Oberoi Concours d’Elegance: Where Cars Are Art and Stories Are Everything
items: Transforming Wealth Management with AI Tools
items: The $38.5 Million Car: When Passion Becomes a Non-Traditional Asset Class
items: The Rise of the Uber-Rich: India’s $2.7 Trillion Moment
items: Your Startup: No One Gives a Shit (NO GAS)
items: Family Office Summit in Bengaluru

Dropping Some Knowledge at Aikya Connect
type: item
creator: mrjain
date: 2026-05-18T11:14:24Z
subject: Family Office
subject: Technology
description: I was at the Taj last month for the 5th Annual Aikya Connect Family Office Forum. 85+ single family offices … More
encoded: I was at the Taj last month for the 5th Annual Aikya Connect Family Office Forum. 85+ single family offices in the room. The theme: Investing in a World of Constant Change. I had the pre-lunch slot (objectively the worst, everyone is focused on food), so I opened with the famous xkcd cartoon. You know the one. A giant, teetering tower of modern digital infrastructure, all balanced on one tiny, random piece at the bottom…in this case geopolitics. <img width="1802" height="966" data-attachment-id="10831" data-permalink="https://celestri.org/2026/05/18/dropping-some-knowledge-at-aikya-connect/scr-20260510-osbk/" data-orig-file="https://celestri.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/scr-20260510-osbk.png" data-orig-size="1802,966" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-meta="{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"0","alt":""}" data-image-title="SCR-20260510-osbk" data-image-description="" data-image-caption="" data-large-file="https://celestri.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/scr-20260510-osbk.png?w=1802" src="https://celestri.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/scr-20260510-osbk.png?w=1802" alt="" class="wp-image-10831" srcset="https://celestri.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/scr-20260510-osbk.png 1802w, https://celestri.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/scr-20260510-osbk.png?w=128 128w, https://celestri.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/scr-20260510-osbk.png?w=300 300w, https://celestri.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/scr-20260510-osbk.png?w=768 768w, https://celestri.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/scr-20260510-osbk.png?w=1024 1024w, https://celestri.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/scr-20260510-osbk.png?w=1440 1440w" sizes="(max-width: 1802px) 100vw, 1802px" /> I retitled it for family offices. The tower? Generational plans. IPS, returns, tax, risk, security, legacy, longevity, governance, succession. All stacked precariously on top of each other. The tiny piece at th…

Finding Your Tribe
type: item
creator: mrjain
date: 2026-04-14T13:46:34Z
subject: Family Office
subject: General
description: I have been thinking about this topic for a while now, and a conversation last week finally pushed me to … More
encoded: I have been thinking about this topic for a while now, and a conversation last week finally pushed me to put it down on paper. I was at an event, sitting in a room full of interesting people, and at the end of the day I told the founder something simple. I said, you have built a great tribe of people here. I meant it. The room had a certain energy. Everyone was curious, generous, a little bit irreverent, and genuinely interested in each other. Nobody was performing. People were just being themselves, and that is rarer than it sounds. The more I thought about it, the more I realized that all of us, whether we admit it or not, are quietly on the same hunt. We are looking for our tribe. Your tribe is the group where you do not have to explain yourself. You show up, you exhale, and you are home. You can laugh at the same jokes. You can argue about the same things. You can learn from each other without anyone keeping score. It is the group where the conversation picks up exactly where it left off, even if the last time you met was six months ago. People find their tribe in different places. Some people find it in religion and spirituality. Some find it in car groups, where the love of a certain engine note or a certain badge is enough of a shared language. Some find it through YPO or EO, where the shared weight of running a business becomes the glue. Some find it in fitness groups, founder circles, book clubs, poker tables, or a random WhatsApp group that somehow became the best part of their week. The container does not really matter. What matters is that the people inside it think in a way that makes sense to you. <img loading="lazy" width="1280" height="526" data-attachment-id="10811" data-permalink="https://celestri.org/2026/04/14/finding-your-tribe/speaker-at-business-conference-and-presentation/" data-orig-file="https://celestri.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/conf.jpeg" data-orig-size="1280,526" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-meta="{"aperture":"1.6","credit":"…

The Wealth Management Industry Is About to Get AI’d.
type: item
creator: mrjain
date: 2026-03-17T03:53:27Z
subject: Business
subject: Family Office
subject: Finance
subject: Technology
description: I have spent 30+ years in technology. I have seen multiple waves of disruption: the internet, mobile, cloud, SaaS. Each … More
encoded: I have spent 30+ years in technology. I have seen multiple waves of disruption: the internet, mobile, cloud, SaaS. Each time, the same thing happens. The incumbents dismiss it. The early adopters get mocked. And then, almost overnight, everything changes. AI is doing it again. And this time, I am watching it happen in two industries at once. What I Saw on the Tech Side Two and a half years ago, when GitHub Copilot (the coding assistant) started getting traction, the reaction from most software developers was predictable. “It hallucinates.” “It can’t handle complex logic.” “It’s a toy.” I heard this from senior engineers, CTOs, architects. Smart people who genuinely believed AI was not ready for serious development work. Today, those same people are using Claude or Cursor for the majority of their coding. The conversation has flipped completely. We are now talking about whether junior developer roles will exist in five years. That arc, from dismissal to disruption, took less than 30 months. Aditya Agarwal posted this on X last month and it got 3.3 million impressions. It's a weird time. I am filled with wonder and also a profound sadness. I spent a lot of time over the weekend writing code with Claude. And it was very clear that we will never ever write code by hand again. It doesn't make any sense to do so. Something I was very good at is… — Aditya Agarwal (@adityaag) February 3, 2026 If you don’t know Aditya Agarwal, he describes himself as: “I was one of the first engineers at Facebook, where I built the original search engine. I went on to become chief technology officer of Dropbox, where I scaled the engineering team from 25 people to a thousand.” The best quote from that Tweet was: “I spent a lot of time over the weekend writing code with Claude. And it was very clear that we will never ever write code by hand again. It doesn’t make any sense to do so. Something I was very good at is now free and abundant. I am happy…but disoriented.” When someone like Aditya s…

The Tweet That Broke My Timeline (And It Wasn’t a Ferrari)
type: item
creator: mrjain
date: 2026-03-07T10:50:53Z
subject: Family Office
subject: Finance
subject: Technology
description: If you know me, you know I’d rather be writing about a $38.5 million Ferrari or the latest Concours d’Elegance. … More
encoded: If you know me, you know I’d rather be writing about a $38.5 million Ferrari or the latest Concours d’Elegance. But here we are. My most viral tweet ever has nothing to do with cars. It’s about AI and wealth management. Of course it is. 48 hours ago @claudeai released the Wealth Management plugin and of course I had to dig in and check it out. I've created a thread on how to use it and what are the inputs and outputs. I'm sharing all the PDFs involved. [1/12] pic.twitter.com/HGPZp5uPxL — Manish R. Jain (@mrjain) February 26, 2026 A couple of weeks ago, Anthropic released their Wealth Management plugin for Claude Cowork. As someone who has spent 17 years building MProfit, a wealth tracking and analytics platform for family offices and advisors, I obviously had to dig in. I put together a 12-part thread walking through the plugin, what it does, how to use it, what the inputs and outputs look like, and I shared all the PDFs involved. I expected a few hundred likes from the usual fintech crowd. Instead, it blew up. 2.2 million views. 11,000 reposts. 23,000 likes. My phone didn’t stop buzzing for two days. I think the reason it resonated is because the thread wasn’t hype. It was a practitioner’s take. I’ve been in this industry long enough to know what a portfolio review actually involves. The time it takes. The nuance. The back and forth between an analyst and an advisor before anything gets presented to a client. So when I showed what Claude’s plugin could do with a sample MProfit report, people paid attention. Not because AI is new or shiny, but because the output was genuinely useful. And fast. Uncomfortably fast. This wasn’t the first time I tested LLMs on wealth management workflows. Back in February, I had already run a head-to-head comparison between ChatGPT, Gemini, and Claude using MProfit’s Advanced Performance Review report. I uploaded the same PDF to all three and asked each one to review it from the lens of a wealth manager preparing a report for a family o…

The Oberoi Concours d’Elegance: Where Cars Are Art and Stories Are Everything
type: item
creator: mrjain
date: 2026-03-03T16:36:37Z
subject: Cars
subject: India
subject: Marwari
description: Last month, I was invited to the 2nd edition of the Oberoi Concours d’Elegance at the Oberoi Udaivilas in Udaipur, … More
encoded: Last month, I was invited to the 2nd edition of the Oberoi Concours d’Elegance at the Oberoi Udaivilas in Udaipur, Rajasthan and the experience blew my mind. I had never been to a Concours d’Elegance, and now I want to go to ALL of them. The History of Concours d’Elegance Concours d’Elegance, which is French for “competition of elegance,” originated in 17th-century France as a parade of aristocratic horse-drawn carriages through the parks of Paris. The concept evolved over centuries, but it really took off when the Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance launched in 1950 in Pebble Beach, California with only 30 cars. Today, it’s widely considered the most prestigious car show in the world, held every August on the 18th fairway of the Pebble Beach Golf Links overlooking the Pacific Ocean. So what exactly gets judged at a Concours d’Elegance? Cars that have been restored to “mint” factory condition are evaluated on three key factors: Authenticity & Originality: Vehicles are assessed on mechanical originality, coachwork accuracy, documented provenance, and overall presentation. Significance & Rarity: The history of the vehicle matters as much as the restoration. Who owned it? Is it one of five ever made? Impact on Value: Winning a top prize at a major Concours can significantly raise a vehicle’s profile and market value among collectors. It’s like getting a Michelin star for your car. The 2024 Oberoi Concours d’Elegance The Oberoi Concours d’Elegance — which I’m going to shorten to OCD – is actually a fitting acronym since every vehicle owner at this show definitely had Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder about their vehicle…and it showed! The OCD held its first event in February 2024 to celebrate the Oberoi Group’s 90th anniversary. The event was curated by Manvendra Singh Barwani, one of India’s most respected automotive historians. Manvendra founded India’s first vintage and classic car restoration workshop back in 1978, co-authored the book The Automobiles of the Maharajas, and…

Transforming Wealth Management with AI Tools
type: item
creator: mrjain
date: 2026-02-14T12:50:53Z
subject: Business
subject: Family Office
subject: Finance
subject: Technology
description: In the world of AI, everything is cool until it hits your area of expertise. I saw the recent announcement … More
encoded: In the world of AI, everything is cool until it hits your area of expertise. I saw the recent announcement from Anthropic’s Claude about their new PowerPoint plugin and thought, cool this could be useful. <img loading="lazy" width="1176" height="1178" data-attachment-id="10669" data-permalink="https://celestri.org/2026/02/14/transforming-wealth-management-with-ai-tools/scr-20260211-rakl/" data-orig-file="https://celestri.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/scr-20260211-rakl.png" data-orig-size="1176,1178" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-meta="{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"0"}" data-image-title="SCR-20260211-rakl" data-image-description="" data-image-caption="" data-large-file="https://celestri.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/scr-20260211-rakl.png?w=1176" src="https://celestri.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/scr-20260211-rakl.png?w=1176" alt="" class="wp-image-10669" style="aspect-ratio:0.9983195270951543;width:586px;height:auto" srcset="https://celestri.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/scr-20260211-rakl.png 1176w, https://celestri.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/scr-20260211-rakl.png?w=96 96w, https://celestri.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/scr-20260211-rakl.png?w=300 300w, https://celestri.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/scr-20260211-rakl.png?w=768 768w, https://celestri.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/scr-20260211-rakl.png?w=1024 1024w" sizes="(max-width: 1176px) 100vw, 1176px" /> Then I saw it in action and thought, HOLY SHIT, this is big. Within days, I read Matt Shumer’s X article titled “Something Big is Happening” and it all made sense and it was also very unnerving. https://t.co/ivXRKXJvQg — Matt Shumer (@mattshumer_) February 10, 2026 Let me explain. The Portfolio Review One of the most popular use cases I have seen for these AI tools to create a portfolio review. Typically this is used by wealth managers for their new clients to …

The $38.5 Million Car: When Passion Becomes a Non-Traditional Asset Class
type: item
creator: mrjain
date: 2026-01-25T07:46:43Z
subject: Cars
subject: Family Office
description: Excuse me while I blog about what I love and not give a damn about current topics, SEO or even … More
encoded: Excuse me while I blog about what I love and not give a damn about current topics, SEO or even GEO (Generative Engine Optimization). What just happened at the Mecum Kissimmee 2026 auction in Florida is enough to make any petrolhead stop in their tracks. It’s the kind of result that makes you stop calling it a ‘hobby’ and start calling it a masterclass in asset allocation. What happened? One of the largest Ferrari collections called the Phil Bachman Collection was put on the auction block and smashed many records. However, the headline stealer was a 1962 Ferrari 250 GTO. The 250 GTO is the holy grail of car collecting. While one famously sold for $70 million in a private sale, this particular example, from the Jon Shirley collection, crossed the block for $38.5 million. Here is the kicker: it didn’t even have its original engine. <img loading="lazy" width="1200" height="750" data-attachment-id="10654" data-permalink="https://celestri.org/2026/01/25/the-38-5-million-car-when-passion-becomes-a-non-traditional-asset-class/ferrari-250-gto-owner/" data-orig-file="https://celestri.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/ferrari-250-gto-owner.webp" data-orig-size="1200,750" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-meta="{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"0"}" data-image-title="Ferrari-250-GTO-Owner" data-image-description="" data-image-caption="" data-large-file="https://celestri.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/ferrari-250-gto-owner.webp?w=1200" src="https://celestri.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/ferrari-250-gto-owner.webp?w=1200" alt="" class="wp-image-10654" srcset="https://celestri.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/ferrari-250-gto-owner.webp 1200w, https://celestri.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/ferrari-250-gto-owner.webp?w=128 128w, https://celestri.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/ferrari-250-gto-owner.webp?w=300 300w, https://celestri.org/wp-content/uploads…

The Rise of the Uber-Rich: India’s $2.7 Trillion Moment
type: item
creator: mrjain
date: 2025-12-28T08:27:42Z
subject: Business
subject: Family Office
description: I was recently diving into a detailed report from Bernstein about the state of wealth in India, and one number … More
encoded: I was recently diving into a detailed report from Bernstein about the state of wealth in India, and one number really jumped out at me: $2.7 trillion. That is the estimated liquid financial wealth held by India’s “uber-rich” today. I have read many research reports but this is one of the best that clearly lays out the rise of the uber wealthy. At MProfit, I spend a lot of time thinking about how HNIs and Family Offices track their investments. We often talk about the “democratization of finance,” but the reality on the ground is that wealth in India is becoming incredibly concentrated at the very top. According to Bernstein, the top 1% of households in India now control roughly 60% of the total wealth. Let that sink in for a bit. <img loading="lazy" width="2324" height="1014" data-attachment-id="10638" data-permalink="https://celestri.org/2025/12/28/the-rise-of-the-uber-rich-indias-2-7-trillion-moment/scr-20251228-mjmg/" data-orig-file="https://celestri.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/scr-20251228-mjmg.png" data-orig-size="2324,1014" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-meta="{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"0"}" data-image-title="SCR-20251228-mjmg" data-image-description="" data-image-caption="" data-large-file="https://celestri.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/scr-20251228-mjmg.png?w=2324" src="https://celestri.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/scr-20251228-mjmg.png?w=2324" alt="" class="wp-image-10638" srcset="https://celestri.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/scr-20251228-mjmg.png 2324w, https://celestri.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/scr-20251228-mjmg.png?w=128 128w, https://celestri.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/scr-20251228-mjmg.png?w=300 300w, https://celestri.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/scr-20251228-mjmg.png?w=768 768w, https://celestri.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/scr-20251228-mjmg.png?w=1024 1024w, https://celestri.org/wp-conte…

Your Startup: No One Gives a Shit (NO GAS)
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creator: mrjain
date: 2025-11-11T13:06:20Z
subject: Business
description: WARNING: Hard to believe but this blog post has nothing to do with cars! When you are starting something new, … More
encoded: WARNING: Hard to believe but this blog post has nothing to do with cars! When you are starting something new, you believe the world should stop and take notice. You have an idea. You have energy. You have a pitch deck that took five late nights and six cups of coffee. You tell people you are building a company and expect the room to shift. But nothing shifts. People nod politely. They ask what you are working on and then go back to their phones. This is the moment you learn the first rule of entrepreneurship: No One Gives A Shit. Or, as I like to call it, NO GAS. NO GAS is not meant to be cynical. It is simply the natural order of things. Everyone is busy living their own movie. They have jobs, families, health concerns, vacations to plan, group chats to reply to, and a pressure cooker of their own worries. Your startup is not on their list. You are excited. They are indifferent. And that gap between your excitement and the world’s indifference is where many founders get stuck. What most people will not tell you is that indifference can be a gift. When no one is watching, you are free to experiment. You can take risks silently. You can get things wrong privately. If the world doesn’t care, then the world also has no opinion on your small stumbles. You get to learn quietly. Of course, the silence is uncomfortable. You will want validation. You will want applause or even just an encouraging head nod from someone respected. But the work in the beginning is not about applause. It is about building momentum where none exists. It is about solving one real problem for one real person. It is about finishing things instead of talking about finishing them. Eventually, if you keep going, something changes. A customer writes in saying the product helped them. A friend who initially ignored your idea suddenly wants to know more. You close your first small deal. The fog lifts just enough for you to see the next stretch of road. People still may not give a shit, but a few start to…

Family Office Summit in Bengaluru
type: item
creator: mrjain
date: 2025-10-15T06:27:42Z
subject: Business
subject: Technology
description: Recently, MProfit took part in the Transformance Forums Family Office Summit in Bengaluru. It was a gathering of around 100 … More
encoded: Recently, MProfit took part in the Transformance Forums Family Office Summit in Bengaluru. It was a gathering of around 100 people with a mix of family office members, CIOs, and service providers. There was a wide variety of topics that were covered that centered around family offices. We gave a talk about moving beyond Excel to manage the wide variety of investments, advisors and family members that a family office has to deal with. When we talk about investment types before it was pretty simple – equities, FDs, gold, housing, and insurance. But today, not only are there more options it also adds a bit of complexity when tracking the investments in Excel. <img loading="lazy" width="2060" height="1098" data-attachment-id="10623" data-permalink="https://celestri.org/2025/10/15/family-office-summit-in-bengaluru/scr-20251015-kstv/" data-orig-file="https://celestri.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/scr-20251015-kstv.png" data-orig-size="2060,1098" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-meta="{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"0"}" data-image-title="SCR-20251015-kstv" data-image-description="" data-image-caption="" data-large-file="https://celestri.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/scr-20251015-kstv.png?w=2060" src="https://celestri.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/scr-20251015-kstv.png?w=2060" alt="" class="wp-image-10623" srcset="https://celestri.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/scr-20251015-kstv.png 2060w, https://celestri.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/scr-20251015-kstv.png?w=128 128w, https://celestri.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/scr-20251015-kstv.png?w=300 300w, https://celestri.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/scr-20251015-kstv.png?w=768 768w, https://celestri.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/scr-20251015-kstv.png?w=1024 1024w, https://celestri.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/scr-20251015-kstv.png?w=1440 1440w" sizes="(max-width: 2060px) 100vw, 2060p…