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.

In this episode, member Brown Chad shares his long and arduous road in investment banking to make it to a reputable firm from two nightmare boutiques.

We explore his journey straight from India to an MBA program,

Culture Shock, the perils of working at very small investment banks with toxic culture,

as well as what he did when the people closest to him began to doubt his path.

Enjoy. All right, Brown, Chad, thank you so much for joining the Wall Street Oasis podcast.

Sure. Thank you. Appreciate it, Patrick.

Great. So you could be great if you could give the listeners a quick summary of your background.

Yeah, absolutely. Born and raised in India, be great if you could give the listeners a quick summary of your background.

Yeah, absolutely.

Born and raised in India, went to an Irish Catholic school, you know, pretty conservative over there, come from a humble background.

I did hear some of the other podcasts, so, you know, I don't think I'm on any of the extreme

spectrums per se that I had a comfortable background growing up and like all the connections.

At the same time, I wasn't, you know, like struggling for every meal.

So I think come from like a middle class family, did so anything about investment banking or

really in life in general.

I just knew that, you know, you just keep working hard and go and become more successful.

And so, yeah, so after...

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