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, Cole shares his winding path in real estate private equity.

From landing an analyst position in Agriculture, PE, right out of Duke, to pivoting to a commercial

real estate acquisitions and dispositions role,

he has always looked to make the move where he'll learn the most rather than chase the biggest

paycheck. Learn what he's up to now in the midst of a major slowdown due to COVID-19. Enjoy. All right, Cole, thanks so much for joining the Wall Street Oasis podcast.

Good to be here, Patrick.

Thanks for the invite.

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

Yeah, absolutely.

I am primarily based in commercial real estate and have touched on buy side and

sell side. Out of college, my first major role was as an analyst on an acquisitions team

in agricultural private equity of all things. But that was a really great learning experience. And from there, I moved to an

internship working in a more traditional Opco private equity startup where they were focusing on

medical office primarily, which is a really interesting niche. We can touch on that later. And then from there,

I moved over to more traditional sell-side analogous to bulge bracket in investment banking,

sell-side commercial real estate brokerage, sort of in-house back-office analytical type work,

as well as project management, property management.

And then after that, I spent time as a land acquisition manager at a large national home builder in Raleigh.

And finally, I spent time recently working as a catch-all analyst to a private investor out of New York,

buying distressed retail property.

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