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, Yuri shares his path from Boulder to operations at Goldman in Salt Lake City

back in 2007. Learn how he survived job cuts and got promoted and why he eventually decided

to get an MBA at INCAT.

Here how he graduated with an MBA unemployed, but then how he was able to get his foot

back in the door at Goldman at an unexpected team, only to be promoted again to a front

office trading position on the fixed income desk. After four years, we learned why he risked

it all to join a small four-person

startup trading cryptocurrencies and how that led to his current role as head of trading at the

fast-growing startup called Anchorage. Enjoy.

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

Yeah, happy to be here, Patrick.

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

Absolutely. So I grew up in Denver, Colorado, went to the University of Colorado, served in the Colorado Air Force National Guard.

After that, I went to Golden Sacks for five years, took a break for an NCI MBA, went back

to Golden Sacks for another five years, decided to go to crypto afterwards, joined the

Kwan hedge fund, did that for about a year and a half. And for the last

three years or so, I've been at a crypto company called Anchorage. Very cool. So let's start

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