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 GR Barassia shares his unique path that landed him in equity research,

M&A, and now a family office running private deals in a global macro fund.

Listen to find out why he graduated NYU

at 19 years old, only to go directly for an MBA at Cornell, how he ended up eventually breaking

into M&A at Lazard in New York, but only after Stinson Equity Research in Tampa. This pod is

really fast-paced and really interesting, so I hope you guys enjoy it.

Gregory, thank you so much for joining the Wall Street Oasis podcast.

Thanks. I appreciate you guys having it. So it would be great if you could just give a summary of your bio.

Sure.

So my background's a little bit unique.

I mean, I'm sure everyone likes to think that, but I can kind of dive into it.

So I did my undergraduate at New York University.

I actually finished on graduate when I was 19 years old, so I was pretty young.

And interestingly enough, I did sports business management as an undergraduate.

So the original plan coming into school, I was very young.

I wanted to be the general manager of a sports team, and I really didn't know anything about finance,

didn't know anything about investment banking.

I had no experience.

I grew up in Georgia, so it was pretty far from the industry. My parents weren't in finance or anything like that.

Right.

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