Mentorship, Banking & Big Deals | A Real Career Story
Wall Street Oasis
Wall Street Oasis
4.9 • 534 Ratings
🗓️ 30 December 2025
⏱️ 32 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | I will remember it all my life, learning an interview at Goldman Sach. |
| 0:03.7 | Every time I think about it, I've been through one crisis after another. |
| 0:07.5 | I had no clue what was happening, looking at the whole stock getting just hammered and hammered and hammered and hammered and I'm just like, okay, what's happening, what's happening. |
| 0:16.4 | Everywhere you go end up blowing up. |
| 0:18.4 | So is it you? Is it you quoted? |
| 0:20.6 | Never look back. You take a decision. |
| 0:22.9 | Don't dwell on it. |
| 0:34.7 | Okay, Quentin, thanks so much for taking the time to join us today. Pleasure. |
| 0:38.3 | So it would be great if you could give the listeners a short summary bio where you're from, all that good stuff. |
| 0:43.3 | So yeah, so I'm French. |
| 0:46.3 | I grew up in France, studied in France from a primary school to like a post-gruntary degree |
| 0:52.3 | and always had a dream to work in London. |
| 0:55.4 | So at school I was always interested by math and science in general. |
| 1:02.0 | So when came the time to choose what I would do at a university, I went to French university in Paris, which is called the Parley-de-Defin, which is |
| 1:12.0 | specialized. Everybody knows it as being specialized in finance. That's where I started, like |
| 1:18.2 | initially, like the first year. And then after a year, I realized there was not enough finance |
| 1:26.1 | for me or even not enough math for me in the first year. |
| 1:30.3 | Therefore, I moved to another degree, which was in the same university, computer science applied to management. |
| 1:37.3 | That's where I was like basically, I, and it was back in 1997. |
| 1:42.3 | So internet was just kind of its premises in the beginning. I mean, there was |
| 1:50.3 | nothing like we have today. So yeah, I just applied computer science, applied computer science, |
| 1:58.2 | fundamental math and applied math. |
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