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I'm Patrick Curtis, your host and Chief Monkey, and this is the Wall Street Oasis podcast.

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In this episode, we continue my talk with PropShead about his progression as an investor at a

top hedge fund. Learn what is expected of you when you first start, how you can grow, and listen

to one of the trades that changed everything. Enjoy.

Tell me about like, do you feel like you were a natural, natural investor was equity,

a long short kind of a natural fit for you? Do you feel like people different you know so there's you know very famous short sellers that just have a natural

you know a tendency to like dig and look for just you know crap happening um in these firms so what's

what's what did you feel like for yourself and for other people?

You know, it's the funniest thing. I don't know if it's just being like a mild worrywart about things or just in consulting getting kind of dropped into all these different kinds of firms that had all these different kinds of problems.

But I really felt like I was seeing how things could go off the rails

operationally and how you wouldn't even see it show up as like a whole in numbers

for like a couple of months.

I was like, that's very interesting because that means you can see kind of things going wrong here

and then that's going to spell trouble down the line.

But by the way, the whole way to when you're walking the,

when whatever, management is walking the company off a cliff,

they're telling you how great everything is.

So they are never going to say, hey, you know,

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