From meeting Anand Mahindra, a young Harvard-returned manager in the mid-80s to building what would become one of India’s most trusted financial institutions, Uday Kotak traces the origins of the name Kotak Mahindra Bank. Inspired by global legacy houses like JP Morgan and Goldman Sachs, he explains why putting a family name on the signboard was a conscious commitment to credibility and long-term trust. His early partnership with Anand Mahindra, one of the bank’s first VC-style investors, became