How a McKinsey Analyst Sought a Fortune as a Himalayan Goatherd

An employee supervises spools of de-haired pashmina as it is processed into threads at the spinning unit of the Valley Wool Ltd. factory in Srinagar, Jammu and Kashmir, India, on Tuesday, Aug. 25, 2015. Pashmina goats are no ordinary goats. The shaggy, wide-horned beasts produce pashmina, the finest cashmere, a silky soft cloth that can fetch as much as $200,000 for a shawl in the boutiques of Paris and New York. Most of that mark-up goes to a long chain of buyers, weavers, traders, middlemen and wholesalers. Photographer: Prashanth Vishwanathan/Bloomberg via Getty Images