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, Gorov Goel shares his path from the ultra-competitive Indian Institute of

Technology to ECSP Business School in Paris for his master's in management.

Learn how this degree differs from an MBA,

the opportunities it affords during the gap year, and how Garov leveraged it to land multiple

top internships and large investment banks. Hear about his struggles to get his first break trying

to stay in Paris speaking French, and how once he broke through he was able to perform at the top

of his internship class to get multiple full-time offers.

Eventually, he accepted an offer at Goldman in M&A in Paris.

He stayed there for seven years before jumping to Estorg Partners, a highly successful private equity fund in Europe.

Learn why he wasn't able to save much when making hundreds of thousands of euros each year,

why he left

to found his own startup after a few years, and what's in store for him next. Enjoy.

It's my pleasure, Patrick. Garra, thanks so much for joining the Wall Street Doises podcast.

It's my pleasure, Patrick.

It would be great if you could just give the listeners a short summary of your bio.

Absolutely.

So to start with, I did my engineering from IET in India.

Then I did management from a Grand Nicole in Paris.

That's when I entered a summer internship at Goldman, started doing M&A as an analyst in 2008

at Goldman, did stay there for seven years with brief strengths in London, and then left

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