Carlo Cisco

And this was before the recession.

So the first thing I bought was Apple.

And then I bought a couple of different tech companies.

Some of them got acquired.

and then uh you know during the recession i bought a whole bunch of different stuff i got baidu during the recession which was really awesome um got uh you know a bunch of the different financial companies goldman morgan stanley um and also just other companies that were kind of like leaders in industry that's what i always look for is kind of who's the best in this industry um because that's typically the company that's going to outperform everyone else

Yeah, that's a great question.

So it was basically, I turned about like 9,000 I had put away from the events company into about 85,000 by a year after graduation.

So within four or five years.

So it was a pretty nice return.

And graduation was what year?

2009.

So it was right as we were starting to come out of the recession.

So after the events company came up to New York, worked with a trading firm up here.

So, you know, still doing a lot of like stock investing stuff.

I liked it.

I didn't love it.

It's kind of the opposite of investing.

You know, trading is much more about kind of short term manipulation and arbitrage opportunities and that sort of stuff.

And then about a year and a half in, I got offered the opportunity to join Groupon when they were sort of in crazy growth phase.

So I actually got to go help build Groupon in Japan, which was an incredible experience.