Naman Manwani — Enter World

A business-bred strategist, author, and researcher turning down conventional tracks to embrace constructive chaos at UCD Smurfit, Ireland.

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Origin Story

Born into a middle-class Sindhi business family in India. Which means I learned business before I knew what EBITDA meant. Dinner table conversations included margins, customers, and negotiations long before strategy frameworks.

Eventually that inherited curiosity turned into structured research, entrepreneurship, and consulting. I started reading case studies for fun, ended up researching dark stores and consumer behaviour, and then decided that moving to Ireland sounded perfectly reasonable.

I turned down a QS Top 6 MiM program to go to UCD Smurfit instead. People asked why. I said the uncertainty is the point. I study why brands succeed, why systems fail, and why Zara never runs a sale. I overthink things professionally. I occasionally build things that fail respectfully.

📍 Indore → Dublin

🎓 MSc Strategic Mgmt, UCD Smurfit '27

📚 Published Researcher

✍️ Author (Spiralling Descent, Writer's Pocket)

🎯 Target: Management Consulting & Strategy

☕ Fueled by chai & hip-hop

Work

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Aug 2025 – Mar 2026

Founder

E-CELL SOC · Indore

Built an entrepreneurship cell from zero. Ran events, built community, and discovered that "founder" is just "person who shows up" in a blazer.

Jul – Aug 2025

Freight Forwarding Intern

Pisces Shipping Inc · Indore

Global trade is a deeply human system. Full of paperwork, time zones, and relationships no algorithm has fully replaced. Yet.

Nov – Dec 2024

International Team Head

Simtrak Solutions

Led cross-border coordination across a distributed team. High ambiguity, fast feedback loops, and the kind of work that reveals what you're actually good at.

Sep – Dec 2024

Management Intern

Simtrak Solutions

Wore many hats before wearing them simultaneously. Learned the gap between the org chart and how decisions actually get made.

Research · 2024

Published Researcher

Dark Stores · Consumer Behaviour

"The Impact of Dark Stores on Consumer Behaviour: An Age-Based Analysis in Indore's Fast-Emerging Retail Market." The real world is the best dataset.

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Learning Stack

Advanced Excel

70%

SQL

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Power BI

40%

Case Frameworks

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Building

Independent consulting projects (small, real, paid)

Export-oriented strategy frameworks (Brand: MIYAR)

Problem-solving frameworks that hold up in the room

A writing habit that doesn't depend on inspiration

A Dublin-ready routine (housing sorted is a W)

Current Goal

North Star

Become useful enough that people pay me for my thinking.

Audio Intake

Things That Changed
How I Think

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Joe Rogan Experience #1309 - Naval Ravikant

"If you're smart, why aren't you happy?"

The podcast I've replayed the most. The ultimate operating system for modern leverage and wealth creation.

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WTF Ep# 16 | What character "flaws" make the best entrepreneurs?

Nikhil Kamath ft. Ritesh Agarwal, Ghazal Alagh, and Manish Poddar.

Indian builders dissecting systemic growth and the harsh reality of scaling in the subcontinent.

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Think School

Geopolitics and corporate strategies broken down analytically without jargon. Masterclass in structural case presentation.

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Varun Mayya — 16 Katas

Navigating AI, leverage, and learning to learn. Reprograms how you view software and human capital.

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Queue

Recently Revisited

Constantly updating. If a framework is good, it deserves a second listen.

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Achievements & Metrics

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Graduate Record Examination (GRE)

Global standard assessment

317/340

Duolingo English Test (DET)

Language proficiency metric

140/160

Creative & Writing

📖 Spiralling Descent Authored Anthology

Writer's Pocket Featured Writer

Certifications

Brand Management (IIM Bangalore Swayam) View Credential ↗ Introduction to Marketing (Wharton) View Credential ↗ Accenture NA Project Management Simulation View PDF ↗ Foundations of Project Management (Google) View Credential ↗

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💼 Connect on LinkedIn ✉️ Namanmanwani08@gmail.com 📞

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This page is not for recruiters. It's for people who are curious enough to find it and honest enough to appreciate it. Welcome.

The GMAT Real Talk

I spent months preparing. Made colour-coded notes, joined study groups, bought the official prep pack. The GMAT had other plans. I failed. Not dramatically — just quietly, in a test centre in Indore, on a Tuesday. Then I studied more and applied to UCD with the DET instead. The path changed. The destination didn't.

Self Doubt Honest Notes

There are days I wonder if I'm building the right things, in the right order, for the right reasons. Most ambitious people feel this — they just don't say it in public because LinkedIn is a highlight reel. I'm choosing to put it here because I think honesty is underrated as a professional asset. Uncertainty is not weakness. It's just accurate information about a complex situation.

India → Ireland The Journey

Moving countries alone at 21 for a postgrad program is one of those decisions that sounds brave in retrospect and terrifying in the present. Student loan? Real. Culture shock? Incoming. Distance from home? Significant. Worth it? Ask me in two years. I chose uncertainty over comfort. The frontal lobe enjoys the chaos.

Personal Philosophy Things I Believe

Ambition is useful — but only when combined with patience and some tolerance for being wrong.

Curiosity compounds. The person who asks "but why did that actually work?" ten years in a row knows something others don't.

Most people quit too early. Not because things get hard — but because they expected it to feel different when it was working.

Nobody actually knows what they're doing. The confidence gap between looking like you have a plan and having a plan is larger than most people admit.

Strategy is just empathy at scale. Understanding why people do what they do is the only durable competitive advantage.

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