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, Matt shares his impressive path from UPenn as a biology major to equity research

at Morgan Stanley. Learn how he managed to make an internal lateral move to Morgan Stanley's

tech IB team, how that opened up

the opportunity at Kosovo and venture capital, and how he approached starting his own business.

Finally, learn why Matt ended up back in the corporate world as the head of corp dev at Service

Now and why he recently pivoted to the head of strategic finance. Enjoy.

Okay, Matt, thanks for joining the Wall Street Oasis podcast.

Thanks for having me, Patrick.

Happy to be here.

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

Sure thing.

So born and raised in Long Island, New York, went to college on the East Coast in Philadelphia,

University of Pennsylvania, where I was a biology major and ended up actually going to Wall Street after college.

We made a big career shift, made a college and decided I wanted to get some

business experience before I made any long-term decisions like go to med school.

And start off my career, Morgan Stanley, and then I went on to Coastal Ventures where I was

a VC for a few years, made a shift into entrepreneurship after that, decided I thought

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