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, member Benioff III shares his unlikely path from a non-target school on the

East Coast to one of the top VC funds on the West Coast.

We learned how he broke into investment banking at a middle market

shop, why he laterled to a bulge bracket in tech MNA, and eventually why he made the leap

to VC. Listen to some great tips on how to position yourself to make a successful transition

into venture capital, as well as how he got comfortable starting his own business after only one

year in BC.

Enjoy.

All right, Benny off the third.

Thanks so much for joining the Wall Street Oasis podcast.

Absolutely.

Thanks for having me.

So it would be great if you could just give the listeners a short

summary of your bio yeah absolutely so uh i grew up on the east coast and did my undergrad

uh at a non-course school also on the the East Coast. And then after undergrad, I came out to the West Coast doing middle market tech coverage at an investment bank in San Francisco.

I lateraled after a couple of years to do Tech M&A at a bulge bracket bank.

Then I spent a little bit of time in venture capital.

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