There must be like thousands of emails I've shot out. I couldn't even count how many people I spoke with. Make sure that you're really doing your research. You don't want your life to be miserable. I feel like acquisitions just follow me wherever I go. For better or for worse. How did you even do that virtually? I wanted to again go with the no stone unturned kind of policy. Any particular people you'd like to mentor? Every time people ask

me for advice, I'm like, do everything you can. The last thing you want to admit if you end up

not getting an offer, that you didn't do enough. Okay, Vamsi, thanks so much for taking the time to join us today.

Thanks for having me, Patrick. Great to be on.

It would be great if you could just give the listeners a short summary bio where you're from,

so they have some contacts there.

Yeah, for sure. So I'm originally from Livingston, New Jersey,

small suburb right

outside New York. I was born in New York and moved there shortly afterwards before I could

even remember anything. Did all my high school there. Then for undergrad, I went to the

University of Chicago, where I majored in economics and public policy. And on campus, I was at

first more involved with a lot of venture capital entrepreneurship type clubs.

Those are the people that are necessarily gravitate towards more, the self-starters,

the people who are working on more unique projects.

And so through that, one of my first internships was working with sandbox industries,

which is a venture capital firm.

And I really enjoyed that experience.

But the advice I got was really to

get a real technical skill set before diving back into that world. So decide to do invest in banking,

spend a summer with Piper Sandler. And that was during COVID. So it was a virtual internship.

It really asked to be put in the healthcare group. I did a summer with DCM. that's just where the group needed me during COVID. And unfortunately, it was not able to replace my group. So recruited around full time and eventually landed a role at LERNK in their healthcare services, the technology coverage group. And this is a great opportunity. This is one who's still SBB Lering. And so the market was doing

very well in terms of healthcare service technology. We were drowning in deals, honestly.

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