Ohio State to RX Investment Banking at Ducera in NYC | Chat with Daniel Chen | WSO Academy
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🗓️ 1 September 2025
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| 0:00.0 | I was super in a Fortnite, so I wanted some way to pay for my Fortnite skins. |
| 0:03.5 | You know, there was some business that was able to be run, |
| 0:05.6 | essentially partnering freelance creators with notable e-sports organizations. That's awesome. You even had an exit, right? And that's pretty crazy. Was that before you got to Ohio State? Next summer, I will be at Doucera in the New York City office. A lot of like even right now kids are like reaching out to me like hey like what you do like |
| 0:21.6 | And I was just like are like reaching out to me like, hey, like, what'd |
| 0:21.3 | you do? And I was just like, I personally reached out to. All right, Daniel, thanks so much for taking the time to chat with us. No, of course. Thank you for having me. It'd be awesome if you could just start by giving kind of the listener short summary by, where you're from all that good stuff yeah so i'm from |
| 0:37.6 | cincinnati ohio about an hour 30 south of ohio state um i go to ohio state studying economics and |
| 0:44.0 | philosophy um kind of throughout high school though um never really knew kind of what i wanted to do |
| 0:49.6 | um in high school though i started started a social media marketing agency. |
| 1:01.3 | Went into OSU actually studying marketing because I thought running a marketing business and studying marketing were similar. |
| 1:04.3 | It turns out they're pretty polar opposites from each other. |
| 1:09.7 | So I went to Ohio State knowing that I wanted to study business, but not necessarily, you know, a specific major. |
| 1:15.2 | So I initially was actually a finance major, switched into finance, joined a bunch of the finance clubs, quickly realized that I didn't enjoy the quantitative type of, you know, thinking that |
| 1:20.7 | finance offer wanted something that was a little bit more qualitative. |
| 1:24.1 | Through that, I joined Ohio State's faculty selectedselected investment banking program called Fisher Futures |
| 1:30.0 | and went through that program my sophomore year. |
| 1:34.2 | And this past summer I was at Copper Run, which is like a boutique Columbus Investment Bank. |
| 1:40.4 | And then next summer, I will be at Doucera in the New York City office, doing restructure investment banking. Congrats. Big, obviously very successful kind of track. I'd love to just go back quickly, talk a little bit about in high school, when did you, like, even come to the idea of like, how I'm going to run this agency, or your parents in marketing or entrepreneurs. How did you even get into that? |
| 2:02.5 | Yeah, so my parents are both in healthcare. |
| 2:06.7 | So I have no business connections at all whatsoever. |
| 2:11.6 | I think it was just, it was quarantine 2020 when I was a freshman in high school. |
| 2:14.4 | And what was super popular at that time was like, you know, |
| 2:18.2 | everyone's always seen like those hustler drop shipping videos and making quick. And so I, you know, as I was super in a Fortnite. So I wanted some way to pay |
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