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In this episode, member Coder 32 shares his path from a non-target university background

to a lower middle market, private equity shop in the south, learn how commercial lenders

are getting very aggressive with pricing and

covenants to win deals, and when this specific user knew it was time to make his jump

to private equity. Enjoy. Coder 32, thanks so much for joining the Wall Street Oasis podcast.

Yeah, thanks for having me.

So it'd be great if you could just give the listeners a quick bio.

Yeah, so I went to kind of the epitome of a non-target school for undergrad in the south private liberal arts school i didn't really know

you know kind of what i wanted to do at first um so i kind of went broad brush got my basics and kind of

fell in love with you know economics and finance, uh, it's not a big business school,

given it's, uh, about 1,200 kids. And, uh, there's about 40 people in the whole finance program

or business school. Small, yeah. Uh, yeah, so it was kind of tough figuring out, you know, what I wanted to do

career-wise, you know, even though I knew that I wanted to do something in finance.

So, you know, one of the things that, you know, I really tried to focus on was, you know,

leveraging any kind of

connections that we had through the alumni base and one of the alumni was a

former so before we before we jump into before we jump into that just give broad

brush strokes of like what kind of where you been and then we'll dive into that stuff oh yeah yeah so upon graduation you know I got an offer at a kind of a

super regional bank credit focused commercial bank in the south perfect you on, you know, small business transactions or, I guess, credit, and also,

you know, kind of middle market leverage loans.

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