Jon Stein

And it didn't make any sense that so much money was going to financial firms.

Something seemed broken.

I didn't want to just follow everyone I knew into finance.

And so for a while, I thought I'd be a doctor.

I did a post-bac pre-med degree.

I wanted to help people.

I wanted to do something that I felt would be really good for the world.

And yet I didn't really like blood.

I didn't really like working in the lab.

I decided, although I love the science, medicine probably wasn't for me.

And then I found myself back in New York and I found myself consulting for banks, helping banks make more money.

That's right.

That's right.

And so 2003, January, I moved to New York.

Soon after that, I was working at First Manhattan Consulting Group.

I was 23, I guess, when I started there, maybe 22.

Okay.

Yeah.

And so for me, it was kind of a tongue-in-cheek thing to say I'm helping banks make more money.

I realized that I was in an industry that I didn't have, say, a passion for the work I was doing, but I was learning so much.