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, we learned about Calvin's path from investment banking at Porella Weinberg

partners to corporate development at some of the top technology firms in the world,

including Dropbox and Twitter.

Listen to hear how he broke into investment banking out of Berkeley, the big risk he took

going into his senior year, and what it's really like working on the inside of one of these

tech darlings.

We talk about pay, lifestyle, and some great advice for those of you looking to follow in his footsteps.

Enjoy.

Right. footsteps. Enjoy. All right, Calvin, welcome to the Wall Street Oasis podcast.

Yeah, thanks for having me, Patrick.

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

Yeah, sure, thanks. So I did my undergrad at UC Berkeley. I had a focus on economics.

And yeah, I think, you know, towards my junior, senior year, it seemed like banking was the hot thing to do for people who wanted a career in business.

To be to be perfectly candid, had no idea what banking was.

Like a lot of us, like a lot of us. Yeah, exactly, right? You grow up and you think, you know, banking is kind of the, you know, you go to a teller, you go to an ATM, but there's a whole other industry kind of behind all of that, right? So yeah, I decided to invest in banking. I've always been kind of a very finance and numbers-oriented guy,

at least kind of at a macro level that always made sense to me.

So after college, I worked at Porella Weinberg Partners,

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