Talking Tuesdays with Fancy Quant
Episodes
Banking's Hype History and Balancing Reality
31 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Send us Fan MailA long form discussion on the history of programming for quants at the banks from SAS to Python and the rise of machine learning. Whil...
Control Systems and Electrical Engineering to AI in Finance
03 Mar 2026
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Send a textDidier Lopes studied control systems and electrical engineering in Europe before moving to the United States to build OpenBB, a next-genera...
Systematic Fixed Income with Jeffrey Rosenberg
24 Feb 2026
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Send a textJeffrey Rosenberg, CFA, Managing Director is a senior portfolio manager within BlackRock Systematic. He leads active and factor investments...
Michael Jordan Pilgreen
17 Feb 2026
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Send a textJoin the quant community in Dallas, Texas April 10th at SMU!Quaint Quant Conference - 2026Learn and network from a close knit quant communi...
What is Quantum Research?
13 Jan 2026
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Send us a textInterested in what quantum computing is? Ramis Movassagh explains the basics of quantum, some applications to finance, why it is a hard ...
Sabr Research with Cheikh Fall
23 Dec 2025
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Send us a textDiving into pure math, quantitative finance, and solving business problems with AI and LLMs. Cheikh Fall is a co-founder of Sabr Investm...
AI in Hedge Funds and Asset Management - Michael Watson
28 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Send us a textI had a blast taking to Michael Watson who is the founder and CEO of Hedgineer. "AI is the future. But not everyone is prepared fo...
Physicist to Quant and AI - Igor Halperin
21 Oct 2025
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Send us a textLearn about financial AI expert, Igor Halperin's journey from the Soviet Union to physics and finally quantitative finance in the U...
Alpha Engineer - Jeff Ryan
23 Sep 2025
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Send us a textJeff Ryan is an alpha engineer with an unconventional background. He is also the co-founder of QUANTkiosk and loves solving problems. So...
The Current State of AI in Finance and Business
16 Sep 2025
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Send us a textAI has many use cases and is a very broad area. AI has been used in finance since the rise of computers and the internet through automat...
NanoConda Founder - Roman Bansal
26 Aug 2025
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Send us a textRoman Bansal is the founder of NanoConda. We discuss growing up in Russia, the joy of reading books, and how NanoConda can help you set ...
Quant Insider - Tribhuvan
19 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Send us a textTribhuvan Bisen is a co-founder of Quant Insider. We learn about his journey from his education to working at Deutsche and then starting...
OVVO Labs and Fred Viole
05 Aug 2025
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Send us a textFred Viole is the founder of OVVO Labs and has been putting together a complete statistical framework using partial moments and nonlinea...
Project Phoenix
29 Jul 2025
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Send us a textProject Phoenix is me re-organizing my life. I got an offer to be a CRO and instead of taking it, I quit my job, sold my honeybees, and ...
Mathematician and Quant - Raphael Douady
22 Jul 2025
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Send us a textRaphael Douady is a French mathematician who works in both academia as well as quantitative finance. His specialization is in chaos theo...
Data Bento and Market Data
15 Jul 2025
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Send us a textI sit down with Data Bento's CEO, Christina Qi to discuss how she started Data Bento and why their product of providing data is the...
Quant Community - Season 8 Intro
08 Jul 2025
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Send us a textWelcome to Season 8 of Talking Tuesdays with Fancy Quant! This season I will bring in more guest speakers from the quantitative finance ...
Building a Better Quant Community
18 May 2025
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Send us a textThis is the presentation I gave at the Quaint Quant Conference 2025. The goal of the conference is to bring together more people to shar...
Immigration and H1B - Quant View
05 Jan 2025
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Send us a textAs there has been some discussion around H1Bs and immigration, and a subscriber asked me to talk about it, here is my perspective.A few ...
A Wall Street Chat with Patrick Zoro
24 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Send us a textI brought Patrick Zoro from Lehigh University on the channel to discuss jobs, hiring, program rankings, networking, and just to catch up...
Director of Admissions and Recruiting at CMU MSCF - Emily Wertz
17 Dec 2024
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Send us a textThere is a lot of confusion on how admissions is done at quant finance masters programs in the US. Every program will do it differently ...
Wall Street Scholars with David Shimko
18 Sep 2024
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Send us a textAn interview with valuations expert, David Shimko to discuss what he has been up to. He's teaching a quantitative focused financial...
Agus Sudjianto on Machine Learning, AI, and Validation
03 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Send us a textI had another great conversation with Agus Sudjianto around machine learning models, LLMs, risk management, model validation, and buildi...
Zach Creighton Quant Recruiter and Founder of Hemans
27 Aug 2024
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Send us a textZach Creighton is a quantitative finance recruiter and founder of Hemans. Hemans is a premier staffing and search agency with specializa...
Stan Uryasev's Quantitative Finance Journey
13 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Send us a textI had a great time talking with Stan Uryasev and learning about his journey to quantitative finance. Stan is one of the authors of the o...
Inflation, Spending, and Economics in 2024
10 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Send us a textFrom 2020 until today (7/21/24), the economy has really come into the main conversation especially with inflation as bad as it has been....
Alexander Unterrainer on KDB
25 Jun 2024
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Send us a textA fun interview with Alexander Unterrainer on KDB and building careers in quantitative finance in London. I have heard a little about KD...
Energy Trader, Analyst, and YouTuber Jonathon Emerick
28 Feb 2024
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Send us a textJonathon Emerick is an energy trader and quant who also has a YouTube channel (QuantPy). We discuss his journey coming from chemical eng...
The Last Five Years: Quant Journey 30 to 35
30 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Send us a textSince I just turned 35 years old, I figured I would a podcast episode on the journey and the lessons I learned. It was a mixed bag of gr...
Economics, Equality, and Bringing America Back
22 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Send us a textAs many of you know I work in a high paying field and rub shoulders with many wealthy people. That being said, I didn't grow up aro...
Should You Have Friends at Work?
16 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Send us a textShould you have friends at work?Of course! You need a network around you. You need people to talk to who can relate to you. It makes wor...
How I Paid for My Education (Masters and Undergrad)
09 Jan 2024
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Send us a textA subscriber asked how I paid for my masters degree as they are very expensive. The short answer on how I paid for it was working part-t...
Time Management Tips from a Quant
02 Jan 2024
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Send us a textA subscriber asked how I manage my family, working as a quant, two YouTube channels, and a fair amount of hobbies including my homestead...
Why Companies Don't Change
20 Dec 2023
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Send us a textAn industry professional asked me why is it so hard to get changes made within a company. They had made some suggestions for improving m...
Why You Shouldn't Love Money
12 Dec 2023
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Send us a textIn quantitative finance I hear a lot of students say, "I love money" implying that will make them good at quant finance. It is...
The Biggest LIE in Quant Finance
29 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Send us a textThe biggest lie in quant finance is that you can do everything required at the highest level of a model. This includes data engineering,...
Gratitude for a Traveling Salesman Dad
22 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Send us a textFor this Thanksgiving season I would like to express my gratitude for my dad. My dad was a traveling salesman and the reason my mom was ...
Gratitude for a Stay at Home Mom
21 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Send us a textAs Thanksgiving is this week I wanted to reflect on my gratitude for my mom. My mom was a stay at home mom and was lucky enough to be ab...
Understanding Performance Reviews
14 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Send us a textUnderstanding performance reviews is challenging especially if you have not worked at a variety of firms. There will always be a human j...
Legends Never Die: How to Become a Legend
07 Nov 2023
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Send us a textMany things make legends who they are. It seems the commonality is the ability to perform at a very high level over an extended period o...
How to Get the Most Out of Grad School
02 Aug 2023
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Send us a textAs grad school programs and undergrad programs are starting up it is important to get the most out of the time you are there. School see...
Operation Paperclip and the Dilemma of Funding Science
16 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Send us a textAs a book review I give "Operation Paperclip" 5/5 stars! I'm not typically a big fan of popular paperback books (non text...
Hedge Funds and Data with Christina Qi
20 Jun 2023
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Send us a textI met Christina Qi virtually at the Princeton Quant Conference in 2023. I was really impressed with her presentation on hedge funds, dat...
Choosing Winners and Losers in Finance
06 Jun 2023
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Send us a textThe finance industry seems to be following the social movement of adding bias and personal opinions instead of allowing the invisible ha...
New Season Topics - Ideas
23 May 2023
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Send us a textThis past podcast season was a lot of fun and I got more interaction and ideas from listeners than ever before. The next season will be ...
Handling Conflict at Work
16 May 2023
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Send us a textSo I had a previous video many months ago answering a subscriber's question regarding conflict at work. They were concerned with a ...
Personal Finance from a Risk Manager
09 May 2023
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Send us a textAs this channel focuses on quantitative finance and risk management, I tend to focus on financial topics specific to the industry and no...
Princeton Quant Conference 2023
07 May 2023
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Send us a textI had an absolute blast at the Princeton Quant Conference! The campus was amazing and my first time visiting, the students from schools ...
How to Price Education?
02 May 2023
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Send us a textAs an educator (content creator), holder of two degrees, and industry practitioner I see the struggle of providing quality education to ...
Mental Paralysis
25 Apr 2023
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Send us a textThis episode is more of a podcast and YouTube update. I have a lot of great ideas for videos however I have been struggling to make cont...
Quant Pipeline
18 Apr 2023
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Send us a textBuilding a quant team, a data science team, or just an analytics team is challenging. Online there are many stories of why data science ...
Why the Banks Are Failing
11 Apr 2023
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Send us a textI left banking about a year ago and many people have asked me why I left. The reason I left is the same reason we're seeing many ba...
Quantitative Valuations Expert: David Shimko
04 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Send us a textI had a blast chatting with David Shimko. We discussed a range of topics from his new book that he is working on that covers a more mode...
Will GPT and AI Solve Everything?
02 Apr 2023
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Send us a textAs the release of ChatGPT has become a popular topic there is a lot of discussion and speculation on what it can do and what it will do ...
The One (Quant) That Got Away
28 Mar 2023
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Send us a textAs I am building a risk management department I am also building the smaller teams within which include model development, model validat...
Finding Your Tribe
14 Mar 2023
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Send us a textLife is hard and not enough people admit that. Finding people who will support you unconditionally is very challenging as this small gro...
Mainline Economics with C.R. Olschwang
14 Mar 2023
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Send us a textA friend of mine, C.R. Olschwang recently wrote a book, "Mainline Business Cycle Theory." I don't often get the chance to...
Trading from End to End with QuantConnect
01 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Send us a textJared Broad from QuantConnect is our guest today. We discuss why QuantConnect is open source along with many of the struggles with getti...
What I Learned from StatQuest Founder Josh Starmer
28 Feb 2023
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Send us a textAfter interviewing Josh Starmer from StateQuest I thought a lot more about his channel and his style. Often I get bogged down in the qua...
The Highs and Lows of Management
21 Feb 2023
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Send us a textBeing a manager has pros and cons jus like every job. For most quants the worst part of a management job is planning and organizing empl...
Communication is Complex
14 Feb 2023
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Send us a textAs a quant you constantly get told you don't communicate well. The real issue is that the fun frilly books written by business prof...
Why I Went Into FinTech
23 Dec 2022
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Send us a textAt the beginning of 2022 I left banking and took a five month career break. I was approached during this time with a variety of offers i...
Josh Starmer from StatQuest: TRIPLE BAM!!!
01 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Send us a textJosh Starmer is the founder and creator of StatQuest which is a YouTube channel designed to help people learn statistics and machine lea...
Quiet Quitting: Good or Concerning
30 Aug 2022
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Send us a textWhat is "quiet quitting" and why is everyone talking about it?There are really two differently defined perspectives on this is...
Love Your Career or Else
26 Jul 2022
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Send us a textTo wrap up season 5 I figured I would talk about the importance of loving your career. I've had many highs and lows over the years ...
Future Proofing Your Career
19 Jul 2022
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Send us a textFuture proofing your career especially in STEM fields is very important. New trendy fields and jobs pop up every few years and often the...
Why Environmentalism and ESG is Failing
12 Jul 2022
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Send us a textI recently made a video discussing the SEC's proposal to have all publicly traded firms calculate their environmental impact. At a ...
Why Automated Validations Fail
05 Jul 2022
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Send us a textWhy does automating model validations fail?Goals/Plan:1) Specify the model2) Runs the development model for a replication check3) Output...
Starting a Quant Career During a Recession
28 Jun 2022
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Send us a textShould you get a quant masters degree during a recession? As the market has started to fall many students are wondering whether or not t...
Lessons from Bad Managers
21 Jun 2022
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Send us a textLast week's episode was on lessons I learned from good managers and today we discuss lessons from bad managers. Many of the key iss...
Lessons from Good Managers
14 Jun 2022
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Send us a textOver the years of working I have worked for a few managers and have witnessed a lot of managers of a variety of teams. In today's p...
Building a Personal Brand
07 Jun 2022
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Send us a textI often see gimmicky posts or videos about building a personal brand. It is usually about generating a lot of easy worthless content and...
Is Hiring Fair: Truth from the Inside
31 May 2022
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Send us a textHiring for any job is extremely challenging. Getting hired as an employee is also extremely challenging. Today I cover the biggest issue...
Where Am I Headed: Banking, FinTech, or Tech
24 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Send us a textAfter 8 years in the banking I quit my job. I quit my job as a quant in the risk management area. I have built, validated, audited, and ...
The Great Resignation Explained by a Quitter
17 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Send us a textI quit (resigned) my job for a variety of reasons with one being an ultimatum to comply and leave. After leaving, the stress went away a...
Fundamental Quant CEO Milind Sharma
10 May 2022
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Send us a textMilind Sharma is the QuantZ / QMIT CEO with a deep background in quantamental investing. His experience started with a solid education f...
Careers in Motion (Season 5 Intro)
03 May 2022
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Send us a text"Careers in Motion" is the fifth season of the podcast, "Talking Tuesdays with Fancy Quant." In this season I will t...
Tech vs FinTech vs Risk Quant
19 Apr 2022
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Send us a textAs my journey unfolds I am at a cross road of firms in tech, fintech, and banking (risk quant). All of the opportunities have their pros...
Quant Culture
08 Mar 2022
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Send us a textHow do you build a quant culture?Quants have very different needs from business professionals (specifically finance professionals at a b...
Farewell to Peter Carr
06 Mar 2022
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Send us a textPeter Carr was a quantitative finance legend. His impact on the industry will not be forgotten through both his research and his persona...
Quant Programs and Rankings with Peter Carr
01 Mar 2022
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Send us a textI released a quantitative finance masters ranking for 2022 and found the process very challenging. The goal is to provide transparency t...
Leaving the Risk Management Industry... for Now
20 Feb 2022
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Send us a textAfter conflict at the new job I have decided to take a break from the banking industry. I will be spending more time on generating conte...
De-Fi in 2022 Prediction and Explanation
11 Jan 2022
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Send us a textThe question on what I think of De-Fi (decentralized finance) has come up often over the last year or two. I have avoided the topics as ...
Married at a Young Age
04 Jan 2022
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Send us a textOddly enough I get asked a fair amount about marriage on my quantitative finance channel. It typically comes from young men who are tryi...
Growing as a Quant
28 Dec 2021
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Send us a text"What does a quant career look like?" The simple answer...they are all different. The long answer has to do with understanding...
Gratitude, Grandma, and Christmas
22 Dec 2021
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Send us a textAs Christmas is just around the corner and we passed Thanksgiving a few weeks ago, I figured I would talk about my struggle with gratitu...
In Defense of Academic Studies
21 Dec 2021
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Send us a textAcademics and industry professionals alike seem to think their field of study is correct while others are outdated or wrong. I complet...
Quant Career Progression
07 Dec 2021
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Send us a text"What does a quant career look like?" The simple answer...they are all different. The long answer has to do with understanding...
The Quant Model Problem
30 Nov 2021
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Send us a textOften we focus on models so much that we forget they aren't perfect. There is a strong need for a validation team to check the work...
Italian Actuary and Quant Student - Andres Rossi
23 Nov 2021
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Send us a textI'm excited to have a long-time subscriber and friend, Andres Rossi on the podcast! I have watched him mature and grow from an unde...
Quant Finance's Marketing Failure
17 Nov 2021
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Send us a textQuantitative finance has a marketing problem in almost all areas. The academic institutions have spent very little time and money and de...
I Quit
13 Nov 2021
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Send us a textI quit my job at Santander working in model risk management. It was 6 fun years where I learned a lot however due to some corporate rest...
The 30-Year Old Crisis
09 Nov 2021
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Send us a textTime is ticking and when you turn 30 years old it seems life changes. More realistically, sometime around the age of 30 as we are all un...
Greener Grass in Academia
02 Nov 2021
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Send us a textThe decision to work in the industry vs academia is a hard one to make. Years into a career in the quant finance industry and I still wo...
Back to Office Nonsense
26 Oct 2021
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Send us a textBack to office non-sense in banking has been sad. Many industries are also struggling with this however without using actual logic, you ...
Turning Down a Half Million Dollar Dream Job
19 Oct 2021
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Send us a textWelcome to Season 4 of Talking Tuesdays with Fancy Quant!I'm really excited to be back here on the podcast and back on YouTube. Whi...
What I Wish My Managers Knew About Me
08 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Send us a textI wish managers took the time to really get to know me and other employees. This is a reflection as an employee and as a manager. People...
Advice for Startups and Entrepreneurs
01 Jun 2021
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Send us a textThe whole third season of the podcast has been about working at a startup. I have seen the highs and I have seen the lows over an eight ...
Failure at a Startup
25 May 2021
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Send us a textCoping with failure is hard however coping with the failure of a business is even more challenging. Your life from money to time to ego ...
The Joys of a Startup
18 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Send us a textWhile working with family has a lot of issues, there are some benefits of working with family for me. My dad worked a lot of hours and s...