Damo Balagi spent nineteen years inside one of the world's largest financial institutions, leading teams across four countries and building platforms that served millions. In January 2025, he gave the title back — on a twenty-year schedule he'd set over pizza in Knoxville in 2004.

Two Cups: A Reinvention Memoir is the story of what happened next. He lives in Apex, North Carolina, with his wife Aks and son Yugan.