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.

We can go ahead and get started. Thank you everyone for coming. So today, we are lucky enough to have

Patrick Curtis here. Mr. Curtis graduated from Williams College in 2002

and went straight into investment banking as an analyst for Rothschild and company. He then became

an associate at Tail One Capital working in private equity. And in the same time, he founded Wall Street

Oasis and then obtained his MBA from Wharton in 2010 and a concentration in an entrepreneur

management. He's now working full-time at Wall Street Oasis as CEO and founder, and he will be moderated by Margo, who is my co-bice president of events in Wofk, and we'll be moderating the discussion. Following this, there will be an opportunity for Q&A. So Margo, you can go ahead and begin. Thank you very much, Nick, for the

introduction. And thank you, Mr. Curtis, for being here with us today. So I'd like to dive

straight into it and start from the beginning of your career. So first of all, why did you choose

to work in finance and start with investment banking, especially? Well, first off, thanks for having me.

I think before I get into answering all the questions,

I just want to say I'll try to keep it very straight and honest with all of you.

I want you guys to get a real perspective and not a sugar-coded perspective.

I have nothing, you know, I have basically, I love just being very, very straight.

And so I'll keep it as, I keep it 100% honest in terms of why real reasons. We can start with this first

question. Why did I choose to work in finance and Ivy especially? I really didn't know what I

wanted to do. Williams College had a pretty good, as for a semi-target, small liberal arts

college, pretty good feeder

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