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, Mentor 2020 shares his path to working in investment banking, even though he was

super late to start recruiting, waiting until his junior year before trying to land a summer

internship. How he was able to survive layoffs at his first bank by laterling to another,

and why he eventually jumped over to an internal strategy role at a bulge bracket investment

bank.

Listen to here the one piece of advice he'd give his younger self.

I think we all need to remember a reminder like this every once in a while.

Thank you. a reminder like this, every once in a while. All right, Mentor 2020.

Thanks so much for joining the Wall Street, Deuices podcast.

Thanks for having me.

It'd be great if you could just give the listeners a quick summary of your bio.

Sure.

So I went to a target business school, an undergrad business school, graduate in 2012.

And the reason why I kind of went to a business school is because I knew I wanted to do something in business

and I think one of my inspirations was this guy named Muhammad Yunus. I don't know if you've

heard of him. He's this pioneer of microfinance in India and he won a little piece prize for that.

And so, you know, he really inspired me to like really, you know, see that they can do a lot of good through business.

And so that's why I kind of went that route.

And when I remember my dad was asking around, you know, his people that he would drive around in the back who were like you

know all street bankers and whatnot and he was just asking what's the best

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