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 Louis Bougier shares her path from an investment banking analyst at a

bulge bracket bank to getting her JD MBA. Learn the common blind spot she had when choosing what bank to join out of undergrad, as well as

why she chose Goldman to continue her banking career after her graduate degree. Also, learn how she

managed to pivot to private equity and a shocking comment made by a partner during final round

interviews. Enjoy.

All right. Louis Bouge. Thanks for joining the Wall Streetoises podcast.

Yeah. Thank you for having me. I am a huge fan of the podcast world. And so it's really exciting to be a part of one.

Cool.

So it'd be awesome if you could give the listeners a short summary of your background.

Yeah.

So after I graduated from college, I started as an analyst at a bank.

Both bracket firm worked for two years, and then went back to grad school and did a JDMBA program after grad school transitioned back to banking, but at a different firm at Goldman and then

transitioned into private equity shortly after my two years as an associate.

Awesome. So that's pretty rare. So you went banking two years, so undergrad banking two years,

JDMBA, then banking again as an associate at Goldman, and then you went PE. So I think everyone

that's listened to the podcast, anyone that's been on WSO knows that it's extremely difficult,

difficult to transition

to private equity, unless you have pre-MBA private equity experience. So what was the thought

process, were you always set like gun-ho on private equity when you went to get your MBA? Or was

it something that you kind of later discovered you wanted? I wasn't. I think I took a very scholastic approach to my career. So in transitioning for my

analyst years into the JD MBA program, I was looking for a program that offered from the legal

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