Hello and welcome. I'm Patrick Curtis, your host and Chief Monkey, and this is the Wall Street Oasis podcast. Join me as I talk to some of the community's most successful and inspirational members to gain valuable insight into different career paths and life in general.

Let's get to it.

In this episode, an old high school classmate of mine, Peter Cressadoulog, shares his

winding path and how he ended up as a partner at a private equity megaphone, Francisco

Partners in SF. We hear about what happened to the tech startup he launched during

undergrad at Harvard, his analyst days in investment banking at Credit Suisse, his jump to private

equity at THLE, and finally his lateral move to the small London office at Francisco Partners

during the great financial crisis. Listen to hear his views on where the private equity market

is headed, the trend toward hiring from non-traditional

channels, as well as the difference across the PE market in London compared to SF. Stay to the

end to hear his advice on how to help differentiate yourself in a competitive recruiting process.

Enjoy. Peter, thanks for joining the Wall Streetoises podcast.

Thanks for having me, Pat. It's good to see you.

Good to see you. I'm excited about this.

Yeah, so just for the listeners to know, we went to high school together a long time ago.

So Peter's going to give you a quick summary of his bio and then we'll dive in.

Yeah.

So I'm Peter Krista Dulo.

I'm a partner at Francisco Partners.

I've been with FP for now 12 years.

I spent the first five years at FP in our London office

and now I've been in San Francisco for seven years.

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