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, we learned how Barrett managed to break into investment banking out of the

University of San Diego, even though he didn't know what investment banking was until his junior

year. He gives some must-listen advice on networking, how to interview when you're not

a subject matter expert, and how he was able to find the right opportunity in venture capital

coming out of investment banking on the West Coast. Enjoy.

All right, Barrett. Thanks so much for joining the Wall Street Oasis podcast.

Yeah, no, pleasure to be here.

Thanks, Patrick.

It'd be great if you could just give the listeners a quick summary of your bio.

Yeah, absolutely.

I graduated from University of San Diego 18 and study of finance there.

And prior to that, my rising junior summer, I was an intern at a hedge fund,

small family office macro fund in, in La Jolla, California. So local to the university down there,

parlayed that into a internship with the university growth fund, which is, you know, we'll get into

that a little more. But that's a super interesting opportunity where you're essentially a student-managed venture capital fund.

It's based on Salt Lake City, and I was out of our San Diego office. And then part of like that forward about a year after graduation into a full-time analyst position at investment bank, D.A. David Sten, I was in our technology group for the vast majority of the time there.

And then just recently, about a little over a month ago, joined up here, our family

office in San Francisco and primarily seed in series A tech investing.

So, you know, short journey into grants gaming things, but it feels like a longer one in

and it's good to be up here.

...