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• Mark Cuban joins Elevate founder, Kaushik Ravi for this exclusive 1-hour conversation

• Mark's career advice to professionals & students 

• Thinking of risks in your career as opportunities

• How Mark overcame fear & anxiety to drive his career forward

• Mark's stories from his first job at Mellon Bank: His misadventures and what he learned from that journey

• How to make the most impact in your career 

• Mark's thoughts on goal-setting

• What will the opportunity after crisis? 

• Impact of AI going forward

• Future of Education

• When Mark hears a pitch on Shark Tank, what is he looking for?

• What is Mark's edge as an investor? How does he work at it?

• Toughest Lessons Learned as a CEO

• Current State of the World

• If Mark will run for president!

• Anthony Scaramucci, CEO of Skybridge Capital and Former White House Director of Communications, joins Elevate.

• Leaving Goldman to start his own Hedge Fund

• Lessons learned over his career in Finance

• On being fired from the White House

• His favorite guests at world-famous SALT Conference (Will Smith, Richard Branson, President Bush, Prime Minister Tony Blair, Mike Milken, etc.)

• Fear vs. Anxiety in your Careers

• What he looks for when hiring people at Skybridge

Oaktree Capital Managing Director & Head of North America Sourcing and Origination, Milwood Hobbs, Jr. on:​​

• What makes Oaktree Capital a special place to work?

• Evolution of Credit & Distressed Investing Markets

• How to invest well through market cycles

• What Oaktree looks for in candidates, and what makes people successful over their careers at different levels?

• Growth vs. Value Investing

• Developing an Investor Mindset

• Relationship-building as a key asset throughout your career

Partner at Warburg Pincus joins Elevate - to talk about all things Private Equity.

• Framework for investing at Warburg

• Keys to success at the associate level

• Keys to success at the VP / Principal Level

• Keys to success in Warburg Interviews

• Looking for PE role during financial crisis from a non-traditional background

• How he got his foot in the door at Warburg & his early roles at Warburg

• His progression at Warburg mirrored life changes & changes at firm

• Investor Mindset and why investing is difficult

• Lot of ways to get to a good outcome. Learn how to trust people & management teams

• What do you look for when you first see a CIM?

• Starting in Banking vs. Going straight to PE

• Career advice for people going through the current crisis

• Outlook for Private Equity

• Buyside Event with Top PE/Growth/VC Firms & Professionals:

  • Centerbridge Private Equity | Goldman Sachs Investment Banking

  • Apax Partners Private Equity | Morgan Stanley Investment Banking

  • Hellman & Friedman Private Equity | Goldman Sachs Investment Banking

  • Veritas Capital Private Equity | Bank of America Merrill Lynch Investment Banking

  • Warburg Pincus Growth Equity | JP Morgan Investment Banking

  • TPG Growth Equity | JP Morgan Investment Banking

  • NYCA Venture Capital | Goldman Sachs Investment Banking

  • NEA Venture Capital | Credit Suisse Investment Banking

• Topics:

  • Recruiting strategies & keys to success in entering Buyside Careers. - Why Private Equity, Growth Equity & Venture Capital?

  • Why your firm? - What is your top recruiting & career advice?

• Meet 16 Investment Bankers from:

  • Goldman Sachs (3x)

  • Morgan Stanley (3x)

  • JP Morgan

  • Credit Suisse (2x)

  • Bank of America Merrill Lynch (2x)

  • Barclays (2x)

  • Lazard

  • Liontree

  • Stifel

• Private Equity Partner from Pine Island Capital. We're joined by David Horowitz, Partner at Pine Island Capital. Prior to that, David spent 9+ years at Goldman Sachs, where he as a founding team member in Goldman's Special Situations Private Equity Group, then was Managing Director at Macquarie Private Equity. Pine Island was founded by John Thain (ex-CEO of Merrill Lynch, ex-CEO of NY Stock Exchange, and 20+ year Goldman Executive)

• David's  Private Equity Journey

• PE Job: Skills needed to be successful on the job as Associate & VP

• Large-cap / mega cap PE vs. Middle Market PE

• Different deal structures in PE: Control vs. Minority vs. Structured Equity Investing

• Where are we in PE today - Trends & Outlook

• Investor Game: What do you look for in investment opportunities, by industry

• Live Q&A by Audience: Rise of SPACS, Good Analyst vs. Great Analyst, Early Career Advice, Common Pitfalls of Investors, PE vs. HF vs. Other Investing Roles

• Citadel Quant Finance with Elevate. We're joined by the ridiculously accomplished Andrew, a Quant Finance professional from Citadel, who was also an Olympian in the Rio 2016 Games. In-depth discussion into the following topics:​

• Coming to Citadel was a game-changer

• What is quantitative finance? Two main tracks: Development (QD) & Research (QR)

• Why Citadel? His pitch to candidates

• How he balanced demands of Olympic athlete and working at Citadel

• Key to career success: Be fearless enough to dig into the details and be self-sufficient to figure things out tough problems

• Interviews at Citadel: What he looks for in interviews, why communication skills are critical even for technical interviews

• KKR Principal, and Goldman Sachs Distressed Credit Investing prior. In-depth discussion on the following:

• Private investing role at KKR

• Role as Associate / Principal at KKR

• What differentiates public and private investors

• Types of financial modeling in investing & building downside cases

• Structuring a deal: covenants, amortization, cash flow sweeps 

• Sales pitch on KKR / His interviews at KKR

• Advice for students entering job market & skills to build

• Defining success and impact over his career

• Rapid-fire Q&A round

• Warburg Pincus Private Equity Tech Investing (Boston Consulting Group / Goldman Sachs prior) Associate joins Elevate. In-depth discussion on the following:

• How he landed on Management Consulting at BCG to start his career? Choosing Consulting over Investment Banking 

• Transition to Private Equity at Warburg; what was the PE recruiting process like?

• Day-to-day responsibilities in Sourcing, Transaction Execution and Portfolio Company Management

• Thinking like an investor and what he looks for as an investor: over-indexing on business quality, moats around business, stickiness, unit economics 

• Trends he is following as a technology investor

• What skills Consulting taught him to prepare for PE and what it didn't?

• What would you tell your college self?

• What is his advice for navigating a competitive recruiting environment?

• Defining success and impact over his career

• Rapid-fire Q&A round

• Goldman Sachs Investment Banking joins Elevate. In-depth discussion into the following topics:​

• Day-to-Day in Investment Banking, Why Goldman, Most surprising when you joined

• What are definite experiences you should build as a 1st and 2nd year Analyst?

• How do you differentiate yourself in banking? How do you make top bucket?

• How do you deal with the stressful nature of the job and balancing multiple topics?

• What are the different projects you're working on? How do you proactively manage getting on great projects and deals?

• What are the key traits you'd like to see in a great analyst - both on the job and in interviews?

• What is Structured Finance? Differences in work and skillset between Structured Finance & Classic Investment Banking

• Keys to Recruiting Process (Networking, Coffee Chats, Interviews)

• Tips on making good impressions in Hirevue/Virtual Interviews

• Why Vince Loves Elevate and Most Important Piece of Advice

• Blackstone Private Equity. In-depth discussion on the following:

  • What is the role of the Private Equity Associate at Blackstone? How are teams structured? What are day-to-day responsibilities?

  • Career path into Private Equity

  • How do you start developing an investor's mindset early in career?

  • When someone sends you an email looking to connect/network, what makes you more or less likely to respond?

  • How did you prepare for Private Equity recruiting? Why talking / learning from others was the most helpful; how to be "politely persistent"

  • What is the top advice for those recruiting for the buyside?

  • Are analytical parts of the job in finance eventually going to be done by algorithms? If so, what types of skills should be built?

  • What was the experience like in Investment Banking?

• Centerview Investment Banking Principal (Prior: Goldman Sachs Investment Banking) joins Elevate. In-depth discussion into the following topics:​

• What is the day-to-day role in investment banking as an analyst, associate and principal? What are the best & worst parts about it?

• How should you think about career planning, career exploration and choosing the right career for you?

• What are things to do as students  and afterwards to be most successful entering and throughout their careers?

• What do recruiters look for in candidates? How to recruit effectively: how to network well, how to have impactful information interviews, how to excel in formal interviews?

• How to excel as a summer intern then full-time analyst?

• How to achieve a good balance with work / life/

• How to find mentors in and outside of work throughout your career?

• Jane Dong started her career at Goldman Sachs in Investment Banking, then joined Uber pre-IPO on their Rides then Eats teams, then graduated from Stanford GSB MBA, and now is a founder of an awesome DTC apparel company, Frankly.​

  • Similarities & Differences Goldman ECM vs. IBD

  • How to accelerate on the learning curve

  • Foregoing Traditional Private Equity to go down Technology path

  • Why technology? Which company? What types of roles to take on? To avoid?

  • What are technology recruiting process & interviews like?

  • Most interesting part about roles at Uber

  • Wearing multiple hats at high-growth start-up / trial by fire

  • Factors in the MBA decision & Deferred MBA process

  • Maximizing your time at Stanford GSB

  • Lessons learned for an entrepreneur, how to you make short-term goals

  • Biggest challenge as an entrepreneur

• Carlyle Group Private Equity / Citadel hedge funds investor joins the Elevate discussion. In-depth discussion into the following topics:​

• What makes a great Private Equity Investor?

• Mega-fund buyout vs. Middle Market Private Equity - Most Important Things to Know

• Entering the Hedge Fund Industry - Recruiting Process

• Hedge Funds: Difference between Sales & Trading and M&A / PE Backgrounds

• How to adapt and thrive in the Hedge Fund Scoreboard mentality

• How do you come up with good investing ideas: Interviews and Beyond

• Hedge Fund Industry Outlook and Skills Needed

• Takeaways and Learnings from Emerging Markets Experience

• Private Equity & Hedge Fund Investing: Keys to Success as an Analyst / Associate

• Cantillon Hedge Fund, $15bn AUM fund (ex- Goldman SachsInvestment Banking) joins Elevate. In-depth discussion on the following:

• Why Hedge Fund right out of Investment Banking vs. Private Equity?

• How do you find great investment ideas & what are his strategies for sourcing

• Psychology aspects of public markets investing

• Pros and Cons of Hedge Funds right out of Banking vs. Private Equity? Differences between PE and HF

• Technical skills on the job & how he thinks about valuation as a function of opportunity cost

• Coding and quant skills for the job?

• Soft skills: Convincing people of your ideas & communicating risks to an investment

• What is the comp structure like in the HF world? At what point do you get carry?

• Why have some funds in the HF industry struggled recently? “It’s a tough job”

• Rise of passive strategies vs. active investing

• What is the Hedge Fund interview process like?

• Rapid fire round: Market at end of 2020; favorite investing book; best advice

• Uber Director & Head of Business Development in South Asia & India on Elevate (Prior: JP Morgan Investment Banking TMT). In-depth discussion into the following topics:

• Career Path to Director at Uber and Head of Business Development for one of its largest markets (1+ bn people, 50x growth over 4 years)

• How her experience in JP Morgan TMT Investment Banking advanced her career. Why she chose JP Morgan & TMT?

• Why finance / consulting is the best place to start laying the foundation for a career - but don't stay too long

• Her time at Uber - joining pre-IPO, helping Uber go public, heading business dev for Uber's platform in the fastest growth market in the world 

• How the first 5 years of your career is about discovering what you're good at

• Why she chose Uber - believe in the mission, broad enough role, grow really fast

• Why some people struggle when making the switch from banking / consulting to a high-growth company - and how to overcome that? Failing fast

• Technology is integral in everything that we do and will increasingly be so - what does that mean for students pursuing business & technology careers

• Olivier (Venture Capital Investor, Softbank Vision Fund / Investment Banking Analyst, Goldman Sachs) joins the Elevate discussion. In-depth discussion into the following topics:

• What makes a good investor? What is venture capital (investing in start-ups)? What's happening in Venture Capital today?

• What are the day-to-day responsibilities of a VC investor at Softbank? How do you successfully manage the incredible amount of responsibility you can get in such a role?

• How did you successfully recruit into Wall Street from a non-target university? How did you land an internship at Goldman Sachs? What are the keys to success as an analyst in investment banking?

• VC recruiting discussion: what is the recruiting process actually like? What do firms look for, how to stand out during interviews, and how to successfully be positioned in the process?

• What skills should you build as a college student or recent grad interested in venture capital, investment banking or related careers? 

• What did he do in the recruiting process that helped him be successful, and what are his tips for others?

• Niranjana (Senior Engagement Manager, Management Consulting, McKinsey & Co.) joins the Elevate discussion. Featured by McKinsey's Global Webpage. In-depth discussion into the following topics:

• What are management consulting careers actually like?

• How to start and have a successful career at McKinsey or other such top firms?

• What does McKinsey look for in candidates?

• How to navigate a very competitive recruiting process?

• Best strategies for case interviews?

• What are key skills as a consultant (problem solving, ownership, impact)?

• How to balance analytical skills with soft skills (empathy, leadership) in careers of the future?

• What is the nature of the work for Analysts & Associates at McKinsey?

• How to navigate the many options for projects (industries, geographies, clients)?

• How does your career grow at McKinsey?

• What is McKinsey Academy?