Loughborough to Boutique Investment Banking | Chat with Jonah | WSO Academy Chat

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4.9 • 534 Ratings

🗓️ 13 June 2025

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Jonah's story is a testament to perseverance and continuous self-improvement. Born in London but raised across South Africa, India, and China, Jonah returned to the UK for university with a global mindset but limited finance experience. He now works in middle-market M&A across global sectors, gaining exposure to clients and investors early in his career. A fantastic story of how branding, grit, and networking—even from a semi-target—can pay off. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 👇👇👇 Land A High Finance Career: https://www.wallstreetoasis.com/academy?affiliate=socialwinner-youtube 🚀💼📈 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ WHAT IS WSO ACADEMY? It's a 12-week program to dramatically increase your odds of landing a 6-figure+ role in high finance... What’s included? 💥 GUARANTEED offer in high finance 🎓 Full course library for life (over $4k+ of content) 👥 Direct access to 1,300+ top mentors across banks & funds 📚 Tons of live training bootcamps (IB, PE, VC, Excel, etc.) 📄 Full resume rewrite + LinkedIn review (human + AI) 🧠 1:1 work with Head Mentors on TMAY + behavioral questions 🗣️ 6–10+ mock interviews, HireVue prep, Excel + logic assessments 🏢 Internship with WSO for resume branding 📬 Proven networking strategy & outreach software 🧭 Accountability coach & progress matrix 💬 Lifetime access to the exclusive alum Slack community 👉 JOIN WAITLIST HERE: https://www.wallstreetoasis.com/academy?affiliate=socialwinner-youtube 💪🔥 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ IS WSO ACADEMY FOR YOU? Yes, if any of the below sound like you: ✅ You want to break into investment banking but don’t know where to start ✅ You've applied to 100+ jobs and heard nothing back ✅ You’re not sure how to network effectively ✅ Your technicals or behavioral answers need work ✅ You’re not from a target school or have below a 3.7 GPA ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Land A High Finance Career: https://www.wallstreetoasis.com/academy?affiliate=socialwinner-youtube WSO Academy is the largest online finance community with 1M+ members and 20M+ annual visitors. The 50+ head mentors in the program were handpicked from 1,300+ finance pros. They’ve helped thousands break into Wall Street careers over the past decade. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 🎓 JOIN WAITLIST HERE: https://www.wallstreetoasis.com/academy?affiliate=socialwinner-youtube ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ #finance #investmentbanking #privateequity #hedgefund #consulting #venturecapital #wallstreet The Daily Peel Newsletter 📰 → https://www.wallstreetoasis.com/media/newsletters/the-daily-peel 🎧 Listen to the Podcast: Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/wall-street-oasis/id1463441793 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/7nQxuApNXFkUSvojQGKyAQ?si=GrYh2zIHSsub8S8xIX0PjQ&nd=1 📚 WSO Resources: Courses: https://bit.ly/2ESzrv2 Resume Review: https://bit.ly/2Z0DFYq Mentors: https://bit.ly/3lIHoUi Events: https://bit.ly/350vMGd ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 📱 Follow us: LinkedIn | Instagram | Facebook | Twitter | TikTok → @wallstreetoasis ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

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0:00.0	Hey, this is Patrick Curtis, CEO and founder of Wall Street Oasis. Today we have a great chat with Jonah.
0:04.5	Jonah joined us when he was the second year at Loughborough Uni. He ended up doing an exchange program with Ed Hec
0:09.6	and joining us and realized he really wanted to do finance. So he ended up getting his master's,
0:14.7	but listen to specifically why he struck out earlier in his path with a internship, and then how he continued to brand himself
0:22.6	more in the finance realm with our equity research internship and a few other internships,
0:26.6	as well as some student groups on campus. Enjoy. All right, Jonah, thanks so much for taking the time to join me today.
0:48.5	Yeah, no problem.
0:49.7	So it'd be great if you could give the listeners kind of a short summary bio and where you're from.
0:54.3	Yeah, so it's kind of born in London.
0:56.5	A lot of my family's kind of up from the Manchester area.
1:00.1	But I kind of grew up abroad, leaving when I was six, spent 10 years abroad, you know, across South Africa, India, China, came back in around 2018, finished kind of my studies there.
1:12.7	And, you know, I ended up at Loughborough doing international business, really enjoyed it, you know, really growing university. It's kind of
1:18.4	really developing into, you know, I think could be a leader in terms of business and finance
1:22.3	in the future. So that's really exciting. But yeah, it's just, you know, looking to kind of get into finance and kind of
1:28.7	really feel like that's kind of the path for me and something that is always kind of being in
1:33.3	my mind. Awesome. Okay. So your decision to go to Lufborough, like, well, actually, let's go back
1:38.2	further. Why were you traveling so much for your for 10 years before you being up to uni?
1:42.7	Like, was it family like uh jobs type type
1:46.4	stuff yeah just just just just uh just my dad's job everybody always said oh was he a diplomat no
1:50.9	i think you know he worked for ford so that kind of took us all over the globe and kind of that
1:54.9	manufacturing kind of uh perspective you know very cool okay so um in the in the auto industry, no, no kind of family in
2:02.6	finance or maybe not much. No. No. And so you kind of are going to Loughborough and you're thinking
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