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, Nick shares his path from the University of Chicago to working at Piper

Jaffray in Healthcare M&A out of the New York office.

Learn how he was able to transition from a summer analyst role in ECM to M&A with a risky move,

why he left after two years to start not one but two companies, and why he followed his

sister's advice to go straight into venture capital. Enjoy. All right, Nick, thanks so much for joining the Wall Street Oasis podcast.

Absolutely. My pleasure.

So it would be awesome if you could just give the listeners a quick summary in your bio.

Yeah, absolutely. So I grew up in New York City. I went to a French high school, French immersion school in town, and then I went to the University of Chicago where I studied jurisprudence, which is essentially, I guess, like the theory of law. That's most basic. And that was interesting, but I kind of knew I wanted to get into business. Eventually, I went into investment banking.

I was an analyst for two years at Piper Jaffrey on the healthcare team in New York City.

And I think most of the people in my analyst class and the people I knew went into private equity,

but that never really, never really fully piqued my interest.

So while I was in banking, I actually started a Rose A importing company.

And then after banking, I started a healthcare company, bounced around with those two for a year.

And then about, I would say, four months ago, I started recruiting heavily for VC positions, and I landed

with Alpha Metro partners back in December of 19. And I've been there for two weeks now, or two months

now. Yeah. So, congrats on the new move. Yeah, that's right. So when it's still fresh. Yeah,

so your path is kind of interesting.

The reason I wanted to chat with you is because, well, number one, you kind of had

a very non-traditional major and kind of didn't.

If I had seen that, I wouldn't have been like, oh, this guy's going banking.

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