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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.

Let's get to it.

In this episode, we hear about Pierre's improbable story, from growing up with almost nothing

to being a first-generation high school and college graduate and earning $30,000 in his first

job out of school to pursuing a master's in organizational psychology

and eventually landing at UVA for his MBA at Darden.

We learned how he managed to secure at Goldman during the Great Financial Crisis in the Private Wealth Management Division,

how he navigated feeling like an outsider, and why he eventually moved back out west after over a decade.

All right, Pierre, thanks so much for joining the Wall Street Oasis podcast.

Sure, man.

Glad to be here.

I know it's a little bit longer, a little bit overdue, but definitely let's make the most of our

time today. So thank you for having me. Awesome. So real quick, if you could just give the listeners a short summary of your bio, that would be awesome. Sure. So I am calling you now from Los Angeles, which is where I'm from. So specifically the Long Beach area, Long Beach, California. I went to undergrad, Long Beach State, was a psychology

anthropology major there. Graduated many, many moons ago in 2002.

We're the same year. We're the same year. Yeah, yeah. From there, I ended up working in my first

job out. I worked at a drug rehab facility doing with statistics, so outcomes research. I've always

had a very strong stats orientation. Even my undergrad programs were like leaning stats.

From there, I got a master's in this field called industrial organizational psychology.

So we're a little bit aged U and I. So like for the older, for the older listeners, there's a movie

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