Wall Street Oasis

In this episode, @MauricioMBA shares his path working at JP Morgan in the strategy and CFO office and his ability to make the jump to the structured products desk.  How he transitioned to Barclays, eventually making his way into an impact investing role as well as some important advice for younger listeners just starting out their careers.

In this episode, Emily shares her path from a non-target school to landing a summer internship at Goldman Sachs. What she did when she didn't get the return offer in 2008 and a detailed dive into the day to day of analysts in the fund advisory group at Lazard. Learn how that group and working as a placement agent is different from investment banking and why a transition to investor relations in private equity is a natural next step. Also, some important advice on the one thing you should believe in before taking on significant career risk.

In this episode, @BostonMD shares his path of 11 years of schooling to get his medical degree to breaking into top consulting firm.  Learn why he pivoted away from medicine and some of the opportunities afforded to graduate students trying to break into strategy consulting.  We also hear what has been the most difficult part of his transition to work and one wise piece of advice he gives to the younger listeners.

In this episode, @PIKtoggle shares his path from semi-target school to working two grueling years as an investment banking bulge bracket analyst. Learn what it's really like behind the scenes and how he was able to successfully pivot to private equity in 2008 even though he was very late to the typically "on-cycle" recruiting process. Listen for his advice on how to deal with recruiters but also how much carry bonus one should expect as you rise through the ranks in private equity.

In this episode, Joe shares his non-traditional path from a non-target school (University of Wisconsin) to breaking into investment banking at Merril Lynch right before it was acquired by Bank of America. Perhaps more impressive than that feat was his ability to land a highly competitive buyside associate role straight into Bain Capital Ventures and then break into Harvard Business School a few years after that. His latest move was to pivot after several years at Samsung's venture arm to found his own venture capital firm. Not surprisingly, that is also going well for him...learn what he thinks set him apart and why he spent an extra year in college. 

In this episode, member @LouiseBouge shares her path from an investment banking analyst at a bulge bracket bank to getting her JD/MBA. Learn the common blind spot she had when choosing what bank to join out of undergrad as well as why she chose Goldman to continue her banking career after her graduate degree. Also, learn how she managed to pivot to private equity and a shocking comment made by a partner during final round interviews...

In this episode, member @BadAxe85 shares his path from classical musician, ju-jitsu fighter and scraping before eventually landing at a top hedge fund and recently a well-respected VC. Everyone thought he was crazy. Hear about his winding path and the steps he needed to take before he had his first big break as well as some of the secret sauce that helped him to repeatedly defy the odds.  

In this episode, Maxwell Peara, former leverage finance analyst at JP Morgan talks about how he broke into JP Morgan initially as a credit analyst coming out of Fordham. How he managed to transition to the front office in leveraged finance and why he left to pursue his dream of playing tennis professionally. 

In this episode, James McKinney, host of the super-popular podcast The Startup Story joins us to talk about his winding path and current success. From a finance and accounting major in undergrad at a non-target to losing it all, James shares some of the highs and lows along his journey as well as this one career tip he'd give his younger self.

Member @LevFinAlum gives us a 10-minute primer on mezzanine financing and shares his career path. Learn about why he got into investment banking in the first place, what's the hardest part about running his own shop as well as his one piece of advice to his younger self.