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In this episode, member KM190 gets into the details of what made him stand out from his peers

in order to make it to investment banking and eventually private equity from a complete non-target.

This is a two-part series since we go into a lot of depth.

In part one, we cover his serendipitous meeting at an info session and his path to IB from undergrad.

Enjoy. KM190.

Thanks so much for joining the Wall Street Oasis podcast.

Thanks for having me.

So it would be great if you could just give the listeners a quick overview of your background.

Of course.

Of course.

So, you know, I am a non-target student by background.

So I went to a Southern school, an SEC school, very good football team.

And look, we had, you know, a handful of people each year going into high finance.

And high finance, I define that as investment banking, private equity, hedge funds,

even to, you know, some extent, asset management, you know, the usual suspects.

So, you know, that's a little bit about my educational background.

Professionally, I have a few years of investment baking experience

in M&A. And I've also just recently started at a private equity fund. This will be my second fund.

I am a lateral associate. So that being said, you know, happy to get into it. Sure. And so at the

undergrad, let's start back there. You said there's only kind of a handful of people

that kind of make it into high finance, you know, banking or whatnot. And is that, do you

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