S4|E6: The Wolf of Broad Street

Gone South

Audacy Podcasts

True Crime, Society & Culture

4.8 • 3.8K Ratings

🗓️ 6 November 2024

⏱️ 34 minutes

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A promising math and science student at the Univesity of Georgia has an interesting side gig. He runs a hedge fund for his fraternity brothers which rakes in massive returns. But with the reward comes a massive risk. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Being a marketer is no sweat.
0:02.1	You just have to manage dozens of channels, launch hundreds of campaigns, score thousands of leads and, okay, fine, it's a lot of sweat.
0:08.1	Unless you have HubSpot's AI-powered marketing tools to help you do all that and more.
0:12.4	Get started at HubSpot.com slash marketers.
0:15.9	When Syed Arbob started his first semester at the University of Georgia in the fall of 2015.
0:21.6	He was conflicted about what he wanted to do with his life.
0:25.6	Syed was brilliant. He was a math prodigy who'd graduated high school with a 4.0 and gotten a full ride to UGA.
0:33.6	His dad was an MD PhD radiologist from Bangladesh who'd moved his his family to Canton, Michigan, when Syed was just a few years old.
0:42.3	His family expected Syed to follow in his father's footsteps.
0:46.3	My parents were very traditional in how they led life. You know, you either had a choice to be a doctor or an engineer.
0:53.3	If you don't want to be a doctor or engineer, you could settle to be like a chemist.
0:58.0	In Syed's first year at UGA, he decided to triple major in cell biology, genetics, and anatomy.
1:05.0	He was on a pre-med track. He was making his parents proud.
1:08.0	But he wasn't totally satisfied.
1:10.0	He'd grown up watching 20-somethings become millionaires and even billionaires in the tech industry. He was making his parents proud. But he wasn't totally satisfied.
1:15.3	He'd grown up watching 20-somethings become millionaires and even billionaires in the tech industry.
1:18.0	He aspired to make that kind of money someday.
1:24.6	I see people get rich quick in this country, which is not something that you see in other countries abroad. And not in also many types of career paths.
1:28.3	For example, medical doctors, they make good money, but they don't make millions in a matter of years.
1:36.3	They might make millions in a matter of decades.
1:39.3	I was trying to achieve the millions in a matter of years.
1:43.3	But making millions in a matter of years is hard to do.
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