Wolf of Wall Street, ‘Greed is good,’ ‘Finance Bro’ – the caricature of my job is plenty.
The reality is that AI has taken over the role of what entry-level analysts used to do a decade ago. Adapting to the change, I committed to learning and thinking from my client’s perspective. From the year our world stood still to 2024, my superstar friends were all let go.
I wondered why I wasn’t. Finally, at one deal celebration party, I built up enough courage to ask my boss, and he, in a plain manner, said, “You ..
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“I was sitting across a 40-something Entrepreneur who hadn’t shared what the meeting was about. The email said, “I have some interesting projects for you.”
“We have to beat <X>.”
<X> was no small player but a Technology behemoth with a market share of $56B. I had drunk ..
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Even as a teen, my friends would huddle around me, pulling me aside for their attention to share their darkest secrets. I wondered about the trust people had in me until two years ago the founder of the startup I worked for shared that he had two months of payroll remaining.
The deepest fears, hopes, and worries of my friends, peers, and family made me aware of the value of listening to build trust and alleviate their stress. In one of the authentic communications I had with an entrepreneur friend, she revealed how her one year of planning was disrupted when her partner quit the entrepreneurial route and took up a job.
Distribution and Marketing were the biggest ...