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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.

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In this episode, Laura shares her path from Eastern Europe to a top target union in London.

We learn how she broke into investment banking, how she survived with ADHD, and eventually

how she broke into one of the top growth equity teams at a megafund. Enjoy.

Okay, Laura, welcome to the Wall Street Oasis podcast. Hi. So it would be awesome if you could

give the listeners a short summary of your bio. Sure. I work at a large private equity fund in Europe, but I am in the growth equity team.

We can get into that later. Prior to that, I did technology and investment banking at a European

bank, and prior to that that I was in college.

Awesome. So back in college, did you know investment banking was your calling in private equity?

Of course. I've known ever since I was blind, of course.

Because it looks like you, you know, you were an accounting major.

Yeah, just the trade line.

You have family in it or anything or who taught you, who told you about it, or anything, or nothing.

You know, it's a funny story because actually I've always, so I grew up in Eastern Europe and I always wanted to study in the US.

So I applied to US colleges and I wanted to do econ because I loved econ in high school.

And it turned out to be too expensive.

So when it came to actually me going, we realized, right, it's just not going to happen.

And I hadn't applied to anywhere in Europe.

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