I heard that investment banking emails about private equity recruiting got forwarded around there, too.īut I was an associate and associates didn’t have any of those resources. There was an informal analyst alumni mailing list where they traded interview tips and PE firm gossip. I wanted to move somewhere with better lifestyle or compensation (or both).Ī lot of McKinsey analysts went to private equity after a couple years. They started to all feel similar after a while: interviewing clients, doing data analyses, refining strategy recommendations, making pretty PowerPoint slides. I was doing strategy and organization studies at McKinsey. Getting home every Thursday after midnight. Staying in fancy hotels (at least fancier than I normally stayed in). My first year in consulting, I traveled four days a week for an entire YEAR. But after 2 years, it was getting repetitive. McKinsey was awesome and I learned a ton. I graduated from law school(!) of all places, after studying history at a state college. Income statements? Cost of capital? All that s*** was new to me. I had opened Excel literally maybe TWICE in my life before McKinsey. I had just left a two-year stint at McKinsey.īefore that, I had absolutely no business experience at all. I had no formal finance education and no finance work experience before HGGC. HOW I HACKED MY WAY INTO PRIVATE EQUITY…Ī few years ago, I was thinking to myself “Dude, WTF” as I sat in a new-hire training session at Huntsman Gay Global Capital, the private equity firm spun out of Bain Capital that I worked at as an investment associate after leaving consulting. If you worked at Goldman, you can stop reading. (Even if you don’t have a Goldman Sachs pedigree.) Don’t want to read it all? Jump straight down to our LBO training video plans immediately.
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