Roxana Hadadi
๐ค SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
Is hyper successful and has other problems as well and is literally trying to buy his way into class.
He can't do it.
And the town he's trying to buy his way into basically doesn't want him there.
They don't exactly say that.
But it's quite clear that you could have as much money as you wanted.
You can never sort of attain a certain specific status there.
And that's, I think, the difference between the U.S.,
I do think a core element to all these shows about money is no matter what the creators are trying to critique in terms of avarice and wealth getting and all that.
That it is a lot of fun to be in that world.
And I think for a lot of people who don't spend time thinking about business and finance, they assume that being a stockbroker or working at a bank is sort of the most exciting thing.
But actually, and I bet the show will get to it, it's the lower end of the totem pole.
You want to be at private equity or a hedge fund.
And if you go to work at a peer point for a couple years out of school โ
And then you're going to, you know, after you get your MBA, but you're really training to become someone at private equity or a hedge fund.
The notion of risk in finance in general is a big idea.
And when you move out of the bank specifically and into the tech world and founders that really revel in, I risked it all.
I just start this.
I quit my, I left Harvard.
I quit my fancy job at the bank to start this thing, selling books over in Seattle.