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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, Alex shares his very winding path.

This includes his stops at a non-target university in London to an equity research internship

in Moscow, to a target master's program in London,

to a sixth month internship at Sochgen, where he was laid off, only to be rehired into another

group two months later, to his internal jump within Sochgen to the TMT group from FIG, another

lateral, this time externally to JPMorgan's TMT group, and finally his latest jump to a megaphone in private equity. externally to J.P. Morgan's TMT group, and finally, his latest jump to a

megafund in private equity. Listen to hear how he feels his path to private equity would have been

much easier if he had just done this one thing. Enjoy.

Okay, Alex, welcome to the Wall Street Oasis podcast.

Hi.

Thanks for joining us.

Thank you for having me.

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

Sure.

So my name is Alex, as you already know.

I'm Russian, so I was born in Moscow and I grew up between

Moscow and France, actually. My parents moved around a little bit due to work, but then I went to

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