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.

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In this episode, member Gunner Gregory shares his path from working at Goldman and investment

banking across two different groups, from joining a startup hedge fund to now branching out

to run his own business, what he learned along the way, how he views mentors, and a certain mindset that helps him grow.

Enjoy.

Thank you. That's right. All right, Gunner, thank you so much for joining the Wall Street Oasis podcast.

Thank you. Thanks for having me. So it would be great if you could just give the listeners a short or brief bio of your history.

Sure. So I'm from the DC area.

Funny enough, I actually started working in politics as a hobby at a very young age.

And I guess actually with work, I really do mean an internship.

So I actually started doing that when I was 11 until I was 20.

So it was a while.

And it's actually not as weird as it sounds.

My grand uncle was Tip O'Neill, so it's pretty, it's pretty standard, I guess, for people

of my family.

But anyway, I end up working for a bunch of people with financial services backgrounds at the

Financial Services Committee in 2009 when they were working through the financial system,

working on Dodd-Frank.

And I learned what investment banking was.

I'd never heard of that before and decided that I wanted to do that.

So I started at Jefferies, working as an investment banker my junior year,

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