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.

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In this episode, Midwest Monkey 2 shares his story coming out of a large non-target state school.

Learn how he still managed to land incredible internships at front office investment banking

roles in both his sophomore and junior year,

as well as he why he turned down his full-time offer from one of them to jump straight to the

by-side. I think this episode really highlights the power of saying no and waiting for the right

opportunity. Enjoy. All right.

All right, Midwest Monkey.

Thanks so much for joining the Wall Street Oasis podcast.

Yeah, happy to be here.

Thank you for having me.

So it would be great if you could just give the listeners a short summary of your bio.

Yeah, absolutely. So I went to a non-target state school for undergrad, majored in finance and math, had a couple of false bracket internships in college,

Golden Sachs, Merrill Lynch, a few others, and then moved to a principal investing role in a middle market firm,

did that for a couple of years, and then went to a more traditional buy-side role.

I went to a large private equity fund that had about $10 billion under management,

doing primarily distressed and turnaround investing.

After a few years there, did kind of a 180 and now I'm on the early

stage investing side. So doing more venture and growth equity and been at my current spot for

for four or five years. Awesome. So let's start all the way back at your state school non-target,

we'll call it.

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