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In this episode, banker turned drinkmaker shares his path from Arizona State to breaking into a

bold bracket investment bank, how he navigated coming from a non-target school, how we

prepped for his interviews, how we

networked, and lessons learned along the way. Don't miss this one. There's some great insight.

Enjoy.

Banker turned drink maker. Thanks for joining the Wall Street Oasis podcast.

Yeah, thanks for having me. I'm excited. I've been following your site and you for a long time. So I'm excited to chat today.

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

Yeah, definitely. So I started a state school and my bio here right now still says anonymous, but I do want to say just so the listeners kind of have an idea of what I'm talking about.

I was at Arizona State all the way over on the West Coast, and I decided I wanted to go into investment banking, and I wanted to go into New York.

So networked my way out there,

hundreds of emails and calls. We can go more in the detail on that, but eventually ended up

with a full-time offer there, did not intern in the city. So flip straight to full-time investment

banking at a bulge bracket, did about three years there, and then jumped into a growth equity shop really doing series A checks.

Having left there after my two-year associate program, I'm now working on my own startup idea,

which is kind of the joke behind this anonymous tagline here is I'm working on a drink company

right now on the side while I also consult some startups doing some outsourced CFO work.

So that's what I've been up to.

Very cool.

So let's start all the way back at Arizona.

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