Associate: “Where did you go? You were supposed to be taking notes on this call.”
Intern: “I went to get a snow cone in Bryant Park but the line at the ice cream truck was longer than I expected.”
💀💀💀
Hinge profile of the average girl living in West Village:
-sunset pic in Positano wearing a sundress and Cartier bracelet
-works in marketing
-grew up in an insanely wealthy CT suburb
-first prompt:
Imagine being a startup founder and getting roasted by the head of Y Combinator on your lack of understanding on how investment decisions are made 😂. Probably should’ve paid more attention during those IC meetings at his nepotism-sourced Vista internship
My analyst came in today and said he was woken up by a shooting in his apartment building. I told him to use it as motivation to grind harder on closing deals so he can move to a better neighborhood
I was on the undergrad recruiting panel for a major bank and they refused to let our group give an offer to a Korean student from Princeton with a 4.0 GPA because it would result in our team not meeting DEI standards. It’s crazy the stuff said behind closed doors which is
I learned from someone with first person knowledge of the
@Harvard
president search that the committee would not consider a candidate who did not meet the DEI office’s criteria.
The same was likely true for other elite universities doing searches at the same time, creating an
$LYFT in their release said 500bps of EBITDA margin expansion (as a % of GBV) in 2024 and just said on the call it's actually 50bps
Stock went from +65% to +11% 😂
First night out in Buenos Aires. Someone (
@itsmarkmoran
) needs to study what’s in the water down here because every woman looks like they stepped straight out of a mid-2000’s Victoria’s Secret catalog
Centerview isn’t really a place you can work at if you have “sleep requirements” - I don’t know the number of times I slept “9 hours” in a night in the 2 years I was there.
This is made pretty clear in advance (by the culture and you’re rewarded by the pay)
European M&A process timelines be like:
-May: kickoff and prep
-June: marketing outreach & IOIs
-July & August: **MANDATORY NATIONAL VACATION**
-September: open data room & LOIs
If you’re an adult and your parents pay your rent or otherwise financially support you (IE an allowance) you’re deeply unserious and your opinions don’t matter
One of the funniest pranks I’ve ever seen was when we convinced a new first year analyst in our bullpen that we had a costume party at work for Halloween. He showed up dressed as a vampire (w/ facepaint) when everyone else was in full suits
My cousin (currently getting his MBA): “Forget IB. I could never see myself selling out to the capitalist system. I want a career that creates meaningful impact on people’s lives”
3 weeks later - *signs an offer with Bain & Co.*
Me:🙄