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In this episode, member Anonymous shares his incredible journey from Zanzibar to a front office

M&A, bold bracket investment banking position in London. We cover how he survived growing up in

some rough southeast London neighborhoods

to his eventual success in ranking into one of the most competitive industries in the world.

Listen to his key advice for how you can do the same and why he moved over to corporate

development for a tech name. Thank you again for joining me on the Wall Street Oasis

podcast. No problem. Glad to be so. So real quick, if you could just give the users or the listeners

a quick overview of your background, be great. Sure. I mean, a brief introduction to myself.

Originally from Zandaba, came to the UK when I was sort of two, three years old.

I lived in the UK since, studied in sort of public school in South East London,

went to university, Cass Business School, and then started my banking career through internships.

During my university time, spent a year and a half in MNA at a Bolshe

bracket in London, and then transferred over to a tech startup as a corporate development associate

working under the CFO.

That's sort of my journey.

Perfect.

Thank you.

And can we tend to reverse in terms of, you came over to London

when you were very young. Probably don't even remember being in Africa, but do you feel like,

in terms of how you were growing up and where you grew up, can you talk to me a little bit about

the struggles there initially? Sure. I mean, we can go back to Africa because a lot of my family

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