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 of Florida Man shares his meteoric rise in his short career on Wall Street.

Learn how he got over $150,000 in compensation as a firstyear analyst and over $200,000 as a second year.

In this episode, we follow his path from a large state school in Florida to a bulge-bracken

investment bank all the way to a family-owned private equity fund.

And finally, to his most recent landing spot, a traditional private equity buyout fund.

Make sure you stay at the end to learn his best piece of advice and what ABR means.

Enjoy.

Florida, man.

Thanks for joining the Wall Street Oasis podcast.

Yeah, thanks for having me, Patrick.

So it would be great if you could just give a quick summary.

Yeah, so I'll start kind of high level on my background.

So I'm from Florida, given the name Florida, from the rural part of the state,

went to a state school,

Division I College to play baseball, actually, was recruited on there, played for a year and a half,

and then got cut because I learned I wasn't athletic enough at the end of the day.

Started focusing more on my major, which was finance, went straight from that school to kind of a mid-tier bulge bracket bank, I'll say.

And then from there to a family office in their private equity arm.

And then recently left to join family office in their private equity arm,

and then recently left to join a generalist middle market fund

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