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Wall Street Oasis

E114: Engineering to VC to Entrepreneur

Wall Street Oasis

Wall Street Oasis

Business

4.9534 Ratings

🗓️ 18 June 2020

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, Ryan shares his interesting path from graduating as an Engineer in rural Canada to pivoting to get his MBA from Oxford several years later. Learn why he ended up joining E&Y's transaction advisory services upon graduating and how he was able to land a hybrid job in private equity and venture capital within one year in London. We also hear why he decided to leave it all behind 5 years later for a new degree to get back to his technical roots and what his new business in data analytics, called Zenlytics is up to.

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0:00.0

Real quick announcement I wanted to make before today's episode, we are super excited because we just

0:05.2

released six new financial modeling training courses on Wall Street Oasis. You can check it out on

0:11.2

the homepage, wallstreetoacis.com or wallstreetoacis.com slash courses. We're super excited because

0:18.8

it includes Excel modeling, valuation modeling, DCF, LBO, MNA, financial statement modeling,

0:25.4

basically anything you will need to master financial modeling and hit the ground running day one.

0:30.7

Definitely don't wait to check it out because there is an early access discount going on right now.

0:35.3

And that's it.

0:36.1

Enjoy the episode.

0:44.2

Hello and welcome.

0:46.8

I'm Patrick Curtis, your host and Chief Monkey.

0:49.9

And this is the Wall Street Oasis podcast.

0:54.7

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.

0:58.9

Let's get to it.

1:02.6

In this episode, Ryan shares his interesting path from graduating as an engineer in rural Canada

1:08.4

to pivoting to get his MBA from Oxford several years later.

1:12.3

Learn why he ended up joining E&Y's Transaction Advisory Services upon graduating,

1:16.4

and now he was able to land a hybrid job in private equity and venture capital within one year in London.

1:21.9

We also hear why he decided to leave it all behind five years later for a new degree to get back to his technical roots and what his new business is up to now. Enjoy. all right Ryan thanks so much for joining the Wall Street oasis podcast hey thanks for us Patrick

1:45.9

great to be here so it'd be awesome if you could give everybody a short summary of your bio uh yeah so my

1:51.8

bio i'm a bit of an odd ball i think um but i'm a passionate a wSO reader by the way so thanks

1:57.5

for everything you've put together it's been such a valuable resource for my career. Thanks for the kind of words.

2:01.6

Yeah, so my bio has been, so I graduated from engineering in my native Canada a billion years ago.

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