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, Arjun shares his path from a top undergraduate university to a quant role

that also gave him exposure to some fundamental investing.

We learned about his short stint in venture investing and why he jumped back into a

quant role at a bullish bracket investment bank, as well as the programs and skills needed to

land these competitive roles. Enjoy.

All right, Arjun, thanks so much for joining the Wall Streetoises podcast.

Yeah, my pleasure.

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

Definitely.

So I graduated from undergrad with a major in math and a minor in computer science.

And originally, you know, wanted to do something in the public markets.

So I started with a big asset manager here in New York where I spent a couple years out of school doing a mix of stuff, including both fundamental TMT credit investing and also some more quant-related

stuff a little bit on the discretionary macro side, this income side. And then after that,

wanted to try something kind of at the earlier stages. And so spent a short stit with like a VC

here in New York, just kind of trying out the early stage investing space

and then went back into quant stuff with with a bank on their investment management side

doing kind of more traditional stuff and like equity derivatives and fixed income and then after

that wanted to push back a little bit more into the early stage space, and especially with the advent of a lot of

interesting alternative data being applied there, have been, you know, working with a couple of

different firms involved in the venture and growth stages, just trying to figure out ways to

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