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, Brian shares his winding path while attending Berkeley and his first few years

out of school.

From landing a VC internship his sophomore year to a junior year internship in the cross-border

M&A group of J.P. Morgan in Hong Kong,

to a jump to strategy consulting full-time, learn some of his secrets to success during recruiting,

as well as why he decided to join Google as an associate product manager. Enjoy.

Okay, Brian, thanks so much for joining the Wall Street Oasis podcast.

It's great to be here.

So I'd love to just give the listeners a short summary of your bio.

Yeah, of course.

Well, I'm currently at Google, where I'm a PM.

It's actually an interesting mix between PM and strategy and ops. So kind of

straveling a bit between the product organization and then strategy and operations. A bit of that is

because before Google, I spent my time at Accenture as a strategy consultant. And then before that,

worked in Hong Kong as a tech investment banker. So I've kind of ping ponged around different roles,

made my way into big tech where I am right now, but super, super excited to sit down and chat with you and help some of the folks on the pod and on YouTube and whoever's tuning in to learn a bit more about my journey and hopefully how that could help them. Awesome. Yeah, let's start at undergrad. So you were at Berkeley, right? That's correct. Did you, you know, you're in the

School of Business. Did you always know that you wanted to be a business major? When did that kind of come up?

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