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 special episode, I give honest advice to a small group of MBAs and MSF students

from John Hopkins University that face an uphill battle when trying to apply our front office finance

roles. We talk strategy when networking, the future of WSO,

and I try not to sugarcoat anything. Enjoy.

Patrick, welcome. We're really excited to have you,

you know, talk to the Hopkins students.

One of us, Matt is a transfer to Columbia because he thinks he's better than us. But there you go. Very, very subtle, very subtle. But we're very excited to speak with you. We've got a bunch of cool questions. So with that, I'm going to give the floor to you. And, you know, we'll just get started with you picking up a name and then we have questions ready for you.

Sure.

I'll just go kind of clockwise for what I'm saying. Shea, you want to ask me a question and we'll kind of go from there. And by the way, any question, if you want to change your question, it can be as detailed or as I'll tell you the truth of everything. because I've been out of the industry for a long time,

but I have a decent view into what's going on based on just the community but it's you got to

understand it's a little dated I'm old now I got the gray beer I've been out of it for a good

almost 20 years 18 years since I was in and you know so we'll ask you all technical questions

that yeah that's what I was about to say so I you know, so we'll ask you all technical questions, though. Yeah, exactly.

That's what I was about to say. So I'm going to get real technical with it. No, my first one's kind of more just pertains to your starting of Wall Street Oasis. And I think all of us follow it in somewhat. And some of us have helped us get into the industry and be excited about it, which is great. So I appreciate you joining us today.

It's awesome.

I'm curious from your perspective, like all I think IB and PE require kind of that entrepreneurial desire and trait. And so I'm curious to hear

with you starting Wall Street Oasis, what was like maybe your biggest setback,

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