01 · Undergraduate
Harvard College
Undergraduate studies at Harvard, where an early interest in businesses, capital markets, and long-term investing began to take shape.
Meet Ken Majmudar
Investor. Builder
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From a one-bedroom in Jersey City to founding companies that last.
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“Ken Is An Absolute Legend. I have learned so much from him.”
Darren Peel
Entrepreneur
“Ken Is An Absolute Legend. I have learned so much from him.”
Darren Peel
Entrepreneur
“Ken Is An Absolute Legend. I have learned so much from him.”
Darren Peel
Entrepreneur
“Ken Is An Absolute Legend. I have learned so much from him.”
Darren Peel
Entrepreneur
“Ken Is An Absolute Legend. I have learned so much from him.”
Darren Peel
Entrepreneur
The short version
Here’s Ken At A Glance
Ken has spent his career building things. The throughline across everything he builds is the same: help more people think about wealth in decades, not quarters.
Investor
Through 2008, the 2020 crash, and 2022, the same counsel, every time: patience over panic. That’s what twenty four years of discipline actually looks like.
Builder
Founder of Ridgewood Investments, Capital Alliance, and other ventures — always building structures designed to compound over decades, not quarters.
Educator & Mentor
Author, podcast host, and speaker driven by one conviction: the principles that change financial lives are rarely taught well.
Steward
As a fee-only fiduciary, he’s legally bound to act in his clients’ best interest, no commissions, no conflicts of interest. Same discipline, higher stakes.
Ken’s Story
From Jersey City to Wall Street to founding my own firm.
My parents emigrated from India with me and my sister when I was five years old. We started in a one-bedroom apartment in New Jersey.
This country gave us opportunity, and I’ve spent my career making the most of it. Columbia. Harvard Law. Wall Street. And in 2002, Ridgewood Investments.
Everything I’ve built started with the belief that discipline and long-term thinking change lives.
Choose Your Path
Connect With Ken
Read
Substack | Essays | Featured Articles
Ideas on value investing, wealth strategy, and what serious investors need to know.”
Listen
Podcast Episodes | Appearances
Conversations at the intersection of investing and building
Build
Ridgewood | Ventures | Consulting
Companies and ventures built on long-term thinking.
Meet Ken Majmudar
Ken’s Philosophies
Real wealth is built by doing almost the opposite of what the financial industry tells you to do. You own great businesses. You hold them for decades.
You ignore the noise, trust the math, and let compounding do what Einstein called the eighth wonder of the world.
Everything I’ve built — Ridgewood, Capital Alliance, the writing, the podcast — comes back to that single idea: long-term thinking, applied with discipline, changes lives.
Meet Ken Majmudar
Ken's Timeline
02 · Juris Doctor
Harvard Law School
Trained as a lawyer at Harvard Law, giving him the framework for reading contracts, evaluating incentives, and understanding how institutions and industries actually operate.
03 · The 1990s
A decade inside Wall Street
More than a decade at Merrill Lynch and Lehman Brothers, covering equities and advising institutional clients — seeing firsthand how the industry's incentives were structured, and how often advice was shaped more by commissions than by client interest.
04 · Charterholder
The CFA Charter
Earned the CFA charter — the profession's most rigorous credential for investment analysis, ethics, and portfolio management.
05 · 2002
Ridgewood Investments is founded
Left Wall Street to found Ridgewood Investments in Springfield, New Jersey — a fiduciary firm built from the beginning to be independent, fee-only, and structurally aligned with the families it serves. Not another product distribution channel.
06 · 2000s–2010s
Building the firm
Grew Ridgewood into a diversified investment platform, including private funds focused on real estate and value equities. Growth came almost entirely through client referrals.
07 · Substack, YouTube & Talks
Teaching & publishing
Began writing and teaching publicly — Substack essays on wealth compounding, a YouTube channel with over a hundred educational videos, the Compound Ideas Show podcast, and periodic talks at investment conferences.
08 · 2026
A fuller framework
Ridgewood today operates from three offices — Springfield, New Jersey; Fort Lauderdale, Florida; and Beverly Hills, California — serving high-net-worth families with over $400 million in assets under management. The firm's ALLRT™ methodology brings decades of experience into a single coordinated framework for wealth architecture.
