Insper Engineer to Investment Banking at Igc in Brazil | Chat with Alex Wever

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🗓️ 25 April 2025

⏱️ 27 minutes

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0:00.0	Hey, this is Patrick Curtis, CEO and founder of Wall Street Oasis. Today had a great chat with
0:04.7	Alex from Brazil. Alex went to a top target school in Brazil, but he was an engineering major
0:10.0	and he didn't know any accounting or finance. Listen to how he was able to leverage WC
0:15.1	Academy to get more competitive. Listen to how his story of, you know, where he broke in to a top
0:20.3	elite boutique IG, and their middle
0:22.6	market M&A shop. And more specifically, listen to kind of how he learned so fast and more
0:29.1	specifically what he did with networking once he was part of our group. Enjoy. All right, Alex, thanks so much for taking the time to join us today.
0:46.7	Thank you so much, pleasure.
0:48.2	Yeah, I'd be great.
0:48.8	It'd be great if we could just give the listeners a short summary bio.
0:52.9	Okay, so my name is Alex Weaver. I'm from Brazil. And I'm from a targeted school here in Brazil
0:59.5	called Innsberg. And actually I'm working on the MNA now. I work at an elite boutique in Brazil
1:05.8	called EGC. And I work in one of their group companies called Over A Capital.
1:13.3	And yeah, I think that's a great vibe.
1:13.8	Awesome.
1:14.1	Yeah.
1:20.1	So when you started at the top school in Brazil, did you know you wanted to be in finance in general? Or did you know like banking and M&A was kind of your main goal from the start?
1:25.1	Yeah.
1:25.4	So I'm actually from computer engineering.
1:28.5	So I didn't actually know I wanted to work with investment banking.
1:32.5	But when I decided to make the move, it's because I have like relatives that work in investment banking and then they.
1:39.0	So they used to talk to me about how the day-to-day basis was.
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