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, Sarah walks us through her time at Michigan, working toward both a bachelor's

and master's in engineering, as well as how she was able to land an internship alongside

other MBAs at Microsoft to help launch your career into strategy

and corporate development in the cloud computing space. We learned how her technical background was

an asset and about her thought process of transitioning to Google's corp dev team instead of the

next shiny startup in Silicon Valley. Enjoy.

All right, Sarah, thanks so much for joining the Wall Street Doses podcast.

Thanks for having me.

It would be awesome if you could just give the listeners a short summary of your bio.

Yeah, absolutely.

So I'm Sarah.

I currently work as part of Google's corporate development team.

Originally, I'm from Michigan, went to school at University of Michigan, studying industrial and operations engineering.

I have both my bachelor's and my master's in that.

Pivoted from engineering to tech and tech business and finance.

After graduating, I went to work full time at Microsoft doing strategy and MNA.

After that, I had a career in venture capital at M12, Microsoft's venture fund.

And now I'm here at Google doing M&A and investments for Google and Alphabet more broadly.

Very cool track.

A little bit different than what we typically have on the pod.

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