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🗓️ 21 November 2012
⏱️ 36 minutes
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0:00.0 | So Levit, between college and graduate school, you worked as a consultant. |
0:13.1 | Can you tell us a little bit about that? |
0:15.1 | I did. |
0:16.1 | I worked for a little company called Corporate Decisions England. |
0:20.1 | That's so amazing. |
0:21.1 | I'm so made up. |
0:22.1 | Corporate Decisions England. |
0:23.1 | CDI, and it was a Bain spin-off, which was later acquired by Mercer, and it had four |
0:29.5 | partners, and maybe there were 70 or 80 of us young people. |
0:34.8 | Was it a job that you were excited to get, or was it kind of a fallback? |
0:39.4 | No, it was a great job. |
0:42.4 | I had trouble getting jobs because I'd never really worked. |
0:46.1 | The fact that I had spent my summer in before my senior year of college when most students |
0:51.8 | were doing internships, I had decided the right thing to do was to go start a little horse-tracing, |
0:57.6 | gambling hedge fund. |
0:59.1 | To lose all the money of my investors in the previous summer, didn't really speak to |
1:04.6 | many of the employers. |
1:05.6 | So it turned out it was harder to get a job than I thought. |
1:09.7 | But the CDI, they actually took that as a positive that I'd had the initiative and the |
1:15.9 | hootspot to go out and lose a bunch of money at the racetrack. |
1:19.2 | Okay. |
1:20.2 | So you got a job at Corporate Decisions Inc. and what kind of consulting were you doing? |
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