E104: Accounting to IB at RBC and PE at HIG....to Starting His Own Company

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🗓️ 14 May 2020

⏱️ 77 minutes

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In this episode, Brian shares his winding path from a non-target school into an accounting role right after the financial crisis. First, he explains how he was able to pivot into RBC for a middle office accounting position. From there, we learn how he was aggressive in trying to get to the front office, the challenges he faced once he got there and the subsequent jump to private equity at HIG Capital. Listen to hear why after years of struggling to get to the top of the mountain in finance he left to go start his company called LCS, a high-end maker of cool custom laces with NBA and MLB licenses. Check them out at YourLCS.com.

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0:00.0	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.
0:25.3	In this episode, Brian shares his winding path from a non-target school into an accounting role
0:30.8	right after the financial crisis. First, he explains how he was able to pivot into RBC for a middle
0:36.3	office accounting position. From there, we learn how he was aggressive in trying into RBC for a middle office accounting position. From there,
0:38.5	we learned how he was aggressive in trying to get to the front office, the challenges he faced
0:42.5	once he got there, and the subsequent jump into private equity at HIG Capital. Listen to here
0:47.9	why after years of struggling to get to the top of the mountain in finance, he left to go start
0:52.7	his own company called LCS, a high-end maker of
0:55.8	cool custom laces with NVA and MLB licenses. Check them out at your lCS.com. Enjoy. All right, Brian, thanks so much for joining the Wall Street Oasis podcast.
1:16.2	Sure. Thanks so much for having me.
1:18.2	Should be great.
1:19.3	Yeah, it'd be great if you could just start by giving the listeners a short summary of your bio.
1:23.6	Sure.
1:24.0	So I started my career in accounting. My father had guided me towards that. I was sort of
1:31.0	just like most of us, you know, younger kid without really any idea of what I wanted to do.
1:37.3	Figured business made sense. My dad had pushed me towards accounting. I got my first job in
1:43.3	2009 when, well, it started January 2010,
1:47.9	but that was like, I was just happy to get a job at that point because it was right after the
1:52.0	crisis. So for me, it was just get in anywhere, find some sort of public accounting job just so you
1:57.4	can get some experience. The money was less important. It was just, you know, get
2:00.9	in there. And at that point, I was still living the college life, even though I was post-college,
2:05.3	I was living in an apartment with, you know, way too many people, almost treating it like a dorm.
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