Wall Street Diaries

rivate equity isn’t about finding “great” companies. It’s about finding the right company for your fund.

In this episode of Wall Street Diaries, we talk about why the exact same deal can be a perfect fit for one PE fund… and a hard pass for another.

Different funds operate under different mandates, different risk tolerances, and different investment philosophies. What looks like a “no-brainer” on the surface can completely miss the mark depending on who’s evaluating it.

If you’re recruiting for IB, PE, or consulting, this is the kind of thinking interviewers are actually testing for.

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Matt Huang did everything “right.”

Investment banking.
Consulting.
Corporate strategy at Google.

In this episode, we break down what banking teaches you, why target schools can feel like pressure cookers, how rejection compounds into leverage, and what happens when you choose learning over short-term money.

If you’re chasing Wall Street but quietly questioning the long game, this one’s for you.

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Artificial intelligence is advancing faster than anyone expected.

Some people believe AI will replace most white-collar jobs in the next few years, including investment banking analysts. Others think it will simply change how the job works.

So what will happen to investment banking?

In this video, we break down how AI is impacting Wall Street, what it means for analyst roles, and how students should be thinking about their careers in finance.

If you’re interested in investment banking, private equity, or finance careers, understanding how AI is changing the industry is becoming essential.

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Most students think investment banking is the finish line. In this episode of Wall Street Diaries, Nathan walks through why that assumption quietly breaks down.

He shares what the job at Goldman Sachs actually felt like day to day, the moment he realized modeling mattered far less than he expected. We also talk about starting recruiting late, breaking in anyway, and how banking became a tool for optionality rather than an end goal.

This conversation is about what investment banking really gives you, what it doesn’t, and how to think clearly about what comes after.

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In this episode of Wall Street Diaries, we break down how an investment banker thinks, and why an engineering mindset often matters more than pure finance knowledge.

We talk about systems thinking, constraints, and tradeoffs, and how those ideas show up in real decisions on Wall Street. The conversation also zooms out to the AI boom, explaining why the race for AI is increasingly a race to build more energy, not just better models or code.

This episode isn’t about shortcuts or hype. It’s about how bankers see the whole system.

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