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associate. So there was that was really, you know, an early experience for me in managing someone very bright who was a little bit younger than I was, but not that much younger. Yeah. So that was a piece of it too. And how did you decide to leave? I
...careers and energizing lives. And I'm still going to
...my career earlier. This is not the path that I wanna walk down. And I've worked with several people like that as well from a career sort of partnership perspective. And it's my job to follow the energy, follow the interest, follow the passion, and wh
...a career in defense and government, and it just, like, I was lost. So I was in my early twenties. Like, now what? What do I do? I have no skills. So I did kind of what I do best. I've always been a natural networker. Love meeting people. Love learnin
...to to build a career outside of academia. What were those
my last year in college. I was actually studying to be a civil engineer, Graduated, became a civil engineer, focusing on structures. Sitting at my desk one day, six months into the job, I just started jotting down my life goals. And for each goal I h
...my career from 2008 to 2018 really working across a number of different investment roles, everything from private equity to credit investing. So I touched a number of different parts of the capital structure. The majority of that time was spent at TP
...you want your career to look like. And so when you were it sounds like you had a passion for this work before you went to school. What happened at school? Was there anything that came up that made you think, maybe I should try something else, or did
college, I'd spent a ton of time thinking about my value set and what I wanted to do with my life. I came to conclusions that made me comfortable with the downward mobility thing. I knew from a couple of summer internships that I had taken, one was a
...in their career that it really doesn't matter. And the third thing I'd say, which I was a huge beneficiary of, was get into an industry that's growing, a business, an industry, or something that's growing. Because if you are, like, I think about dist
...career was just how to rip apart financial statements. So really dig deep into unit economics of businesses, balance sheets, cash flows, income statements, really probe management teams' claims around earnings or their business model. Along that jour
...career path. I noticed in early mid eighty eight, Morgan did the first
...careers. So why don't we just start at the beginning in in journalism and maybe touch on all of them and some of the lessons you learned along the way? Sure. So I was a college journalist as a hobby. Thought I was going to end up in business or law o
...transition. During the summer, I was running our hockey camps, trying to get that to a point where we could hand it off to other people to run it for us. Then I wanna get into private equity. Whether it was venture, whether it was bio, didn't know. B
I had no idea. You and me, liberal arts, education? My parents had done very different things, so there's no exposure going up. Finance ended up being something that I saw a lot of people in particularly going to college, your friends, their parents.
shape you both as a kid and then throughout your life? As a military brat, you learn pretty quickly to tolerate uncertainty. You're constantly being put in positions where I think my dad retired when I was in fifth grade, fifth or sixth grade. And so
a career in defense and government, and it just, like, I was lost. So I was in my early twenties. Like, now what? What do I do? I have no skills. So I did kind of what I do best. I've always been a natural networker. Love meeting people. Love learnin
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