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nobody asks about your external rate of return
Joined April 2023
In college, everyone tells you to savor the moment and that you will never be this young again. You hear it, perhaps even nod along, but it doesn’t quite register. The illusion of youth feels infinite, untouched by time and an endless road. Then a few years slip quietly by. Life.
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Three levels of wealth. > No LinkedIn.> LinkedIn.> No LinkedIn.
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Men will have entire setups like this just so they underperform the S&P500.
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POV you just asked a Brooklyn girl who believes in socialism what her boyfriend does for work (he is a VP at a private equity firm)
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Tax accountants going through 800 pages of trading activity just to see $2.32 of capital gains for their client
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If you held the McChicken for the past 5 years, you would have outperformed the S&P 500
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You either get replaced by an Indian CEO or live long enough to see yourself become the Indian CEO
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this picture was the beginning of the end after a decade of ZIRP. they thought they were making an innocent video but ended up creating a historical artifact instead. we would still be working remotely if not for this. deserves to be in history and economics textbooks
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You are telling me these loans are backed by consumers who ordered burritos on DoorDash?
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3 levels of wealth. > No work laptop on vacation .> Take work laptop on vacation.> No work laptop on vacation.
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"so you financed a $5.29 McChicken on DoorDash but still remain bullish on the economy?"
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Reddit is filled with posts like these across every profession. Anyone with any insight on what is going on?
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This is all relationship advice summed up in one post
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Analysts in 2025: “i did 6 internships, joined my finance club, did 2 excel bootcamps, and sent 200 cold emails for this job”. MDs talking about their first job: “i didn’t know what to do with my life. I walked into the building and had a firm handshake. I was hired on the spot”.
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Absolutely not
Is 30 too late to lock in?.
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Finance bros who learned that stocks and bonds have inverse relationship watching both go down at the same time
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The personality that allows you to become rich prevents you from stopping work once you become rich
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How the girl from Brooklyn looks at me when I tell her I believe in socialism (i work in private equity)
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people with 0.04 shares of NVIDIA listening to the earnings call today
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Investment banking is the most romanticized job that exists. Lets talk about bad experiences you have had in banking. I'll start. Once had to spend 2 hours away on a Christmas night because my MD wanted to change "US" to "U.S." across the entire deck, including the charts.
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Private equity firms discovering a family business with no debt that runs on outdated technology.
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They were generally accepted.
Were the rules of accounting created or discovered?.
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Steve Jobs emailed Bruce Chizen (CEO of ADBE) after he attempted to poach employees from Apple. What an absolute guy
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The vilification of a 9 to 5 job amongst this generation is absolutely fascinating to me. For gods sake, you are working in an air conditioned office where you have to reply to emails and add or multiply a few numbers on excel. Most people around the world would kill for that
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The most impressive part of this? Zuckerberg is the only one within this vicinity that has not yet gotten divorced.
Meta just hit a $1.5 trillion market cap. Mark Zuckerberg is now the world's second richest person.
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The best investor in the world is holding $300 billion of cash and you are buying?
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Wharton and HBS alumni after finding a small HVAC family business with no website or CRM platform
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Men used to go to war, now they announce promotions at their desk jobs using this picture
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underrated career advice is recognizing that you don’t work for your company’s CEO or the head of your group. you work for the person who sits directly above you in rank. always make them look good in front of their boss. the promotions and pay raises will naturally follow.
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This is one of the greatest scenes ever captured on camera and no one can convince me otherwise.
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Investment banking MDs winning a new deal vs the analyst who knows he will not have a single weekend for the next 4 months.
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Absolute gem of a post. Whenever something in the public market makes absolutely no sense, I just come back to read this
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Working from the office is far superior to WFH when it comes to productivity
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LinkedIn cringe tier list. > "happy to announce" post for every new job.> listed as HBS alum after doing 1 week program at HBS.> Having MBA or CFA at the end of your name.> "Incoming Investment Banking Analyst".> 800 word thank you post tagging an entire village. What else?.
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Berkshire annual shareholder meeting day is like Coachella for people can read a 10K.
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So your firm pays $25K per year for your Bloomberg Terminal but you only use it to look at stock price charts and read news headlines all day?
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this math hits hard if you dont know how exponents work
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Peter Thiel coming on Joe Rogan is the male version of a Taylor Swift concert.
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when you ask the socialist girl from NYU what her boyfriend does (he works in private equity)
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Men will have entire setups like this just to underperform the S&P 500
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Private equity firms when the revenues don’t go up 20% just because that’s what the excel model said
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Venture Capital.
is there a job where they pay you for just being a chill guy with good intuition about stuff?
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When your analyst starts talking about buying a rolex and expensive vacations in Europe
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Now that the S&P is back to flat YTD, great time to bring back this classic reminder about markets
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Not even exaggerating, but this is exactly the type of math you see management consultants doing to estimate TAM of a niche industry.
Apologies @JeffBezos. I was the anonymous source for the NY Post article. They asked me to make an estimate and I sent the attached doc.
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Private equity bros after hearing the Fed just cut by 50bps
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Remembering the ZIRP era when Chipotle bowls were $6 and Uber rides were subsidized by VCs.
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Private equity firms discovering a family business with no website and outdated technology.
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New startup idea: 401K but with 4x leverage and we charge obscene management fees
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When someone says they use Google Spreadsheets instead of Excel
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The investment banking class of 2035 pipeline stays alive.
‘THE WOLF OF WALL STREET’ releases April 1 on Disney+ (with Hulu subscription). See what other movies are coming soon to Disney+ & Hulu:
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Blue hardcoded numbers in excel might be the easiest way to differentiate between someone who has actually worked in finance vs someone who is pretending to have.
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all men secretly believe there is non zero chance they will run a diversified HoldCo with highly profitable and cash flowing assets one day.
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Investment banking Managing Directors at 8:01 AM tomorrow morning.
O.K., Christmas is over, now we can all go back to the wars of life. Focus, focus, focus-never accept defeat -push hard for total victory!.
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When you ask your boss why he has been working remotely for 3 years even though everyone else is mandated to be in the office
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This is one of my favorite clips from Bill Ackman. His advice for dealing with adversity is "just make a little bit of progress everyday". The way to overcome the insurmountable is to break it up into small pieces and jump over one hurdle a day.
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The perfect day for an MBA associate. > show up here.> join 9 zoom calls just to say “nothing else from me” at the end.> forward all work from the MD to the analyst.> leave at 6:30 pm and be offline for 4 hours.> send useless formatting comments to analyst at 11 pm.> go to sleep
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America is learning the lesson that CEOs learned a long time ago. Never hire Cantor Fitzgerald as your advisor over Goldman Sachs or Evercore.
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Make investment banking salaries great again. From Matt Levine’s Money Stuff
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Just caught the MBA associate writing an excel formula like = A3 + A4 + A5 + A6 + A7, instead of just using a sum formula
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Banking analysts: “yeah, might spend some time at the beach this summer to relax”. The beach in question
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People who know nothing about stocks and save all their money in a 4.15% HYSA right now.
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Using a $25K Bloomberg Terminal just to look up prices of stocks all day
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A large part of this is due to proximity around ultra wealthy people. Yes you can clear $750K/yr in your 30s within finance. The problem is that If you spend most of your day around MDs and clients who are worth multi million or billions, that $750K does not feel like a lot.
living in nyc is fascinating because you meet all these people making $750k/year with 8 figure net worths and they don’t even call themselves upper class.
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Just reminder that if you are young and in your prime earning years, a market selloff is probably the best thing that can happen.
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Warren Buffett on what caused the 2008 global financial crisis. One of my favorite clips of him. Simple explanation but spot on
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My hands look like this so the shareholders can look like this
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Best guide on how to identify a private equity or hedge fund by looking at its name
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In America, 22 year old college graduates with nicotine addiction work 80+ hours a day to keep the M&A market alive. They call them investment bankers, even though they are just glorified calendar invite senders who know a bit of excel
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Capital asset pricing model.
What do you feel is the dumbest concept embraced by reasonably smart people?.
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The two ways to get a great job in finance nowadays. From Matt Levine’s Money Stuff
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Men only want one thing and it is to have a $300B war chest during a market downturn
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Your career should be like Oracle. Nobody can really explain what you do but you are somehow too critical and disruptive for the business to get rid of.
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Recent anecdote on work culture within Baird industrials. > consistent 4 AM nights.> ridiculed for going to gym during week.> no respect for weekend policy. If you worked in this group or a similar sweaty culture group, would love to hear more about your experience
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The liberalism leaving every investment banking analysts body when they find out their bonus gets taxed at 50%
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POV you just found out that private equity is buying the company you work at
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Nobody will remember.- Your salary.- Your fancy title.- How busy you were.- How stressed you were.- How many hours you worked . People will remember.- The LBO model template you created that became the standard template in your banking group.
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Just checked how much we paid lawyers just to send NDAs back and forth last year
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Europeans realizing that being the world economic hegemon means you cannot be out of office for the entire summer
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For folks who left banking, PE or similar finance roles, what was the exact moment you decided to leave?. Would love to hear more stories of people who left behind the golden handcuffs. What caused you to make the jump and what did you pursue instead?.
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We are incredibly blessed in the context of history but everyone is somehow depressed or not content with their life. Will never make sense to me
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