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, we hear about Kunal Mitha's path from pure finance at NYU to sales and trading

at Numura once he graduated. Find out why he quit without anything else lined up, what he did

to pay the bills, why he was lost, and how he stumbled into work that had meaning for him.

What I like most about this episode is his willingness to share his failed missteps as an entrepreneur and how it has shaped him as an investor on the other side of the table.

Also, make sure to check out his latest book, Finding Genius on Amazon or in

bookstores at a store near you. Enjoy.

All right, Kuhnall, thanks so much for joining the Wall Street Doses podcast.

Yeah, I appreciate it. It's great to be here. Did I say that right? Is it Kunal or Kunal? Yeah, Kunal. Conal is right. Right. So real quick, give a little bio of your background just for the listeners to get some. Yeah, for sure. I can, I'll start, I'll start way back.

But I had actually, I'm from Brooklyn originally, a small time of Bay Ridge, and began working

at Jeth Morgan in 2007.

It was part of a four-year program with NYU where they were going to pay for my full college

tuition, but I had to work for them at the same time. It was called the Smart Star program. I think they still run it. Really

great program, pretty exciting. They accepted about 15 people here from New York and got

into the industry before the recession hit and it was really kind of peak Wall Street. Everybody

was living a pretty great life and really interesting to be there.

So spent the following four years there kind of riding it the entire way down.

So seeing Jake Morgan go through a lot of transitions, the acquisition of Bear Stearns.

We actually moved into 383 Madison my senior year of college, which is the old Bear Stearns building.

So we got to see a ton of changes there.

Spend another year on Wall Street after graduating college, but was more excited and interested in kind of an entrepreneurial side of things and decided to leave without much of a plan.

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