HYPS freshman - How to get to Tiger Cub Fund

I'm a freshman at a HYPS school studying econ and CS. What's the best way to optimize for a Tiger Cub fund and also make a fuck ton of money. Tiger Global would be ideal--I heard talks that Tiger was hiring someone from my school directly out of undergrad but Idk how true that is. What's the ideal path? IB? Consulting? PE? B school? 

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I got you bro, here’s the formula:

  • Step 1: get an internship at a top 5 investment bank. quick skim of the vault guide should do it. Crush it and convert to full time. Option to go straight to PE but you'll miss some of the models and bottles, idk 
  • Step 2: you’re at Goldman, just started full time. PE recruiting starts right away. Do a few weeks of practicing your LBOs, get a mega fund PE offer. Blackstone, KKR, Apollo, Silver Lake, etc. Feel free to chill for the rest of your 2 years, no need to crush anymore
  • Step 3: it’s tiger cub time baby. You’re a year in at KKR, start working on a couple of stock pitches in your down time, boom you’re in. Optionally, you can head to HBS or GSB for a couple years first if you want to chill and travel for a couple of years. Not sure if it’s worth the annoyance of having to write the essay and take the gmat but could be fun
  • Step 4: you’re crushing it at Viking clipping 8 figures a year like clockwork. The only thing you worry about is where to buy your next house
 

From someone who went from HYPS directly to top buyside and was also an insufferably cocky freshman once upon a time - you’re gonna get fucking humbled

 

I hate this post with a passion but I’ll bite…

If ur at HYPS then u need to impress those guys at Matrix.

 

imagine in 20 years when someone will comment "this aged well" after Tiger Cubs become not so hip.

 

A few MF PE firms, such as Blackstone, KKR, Warburg Pincus, Bain Capital, and Silver Lake, offer analyst programs and directly hire undergraduates. This is the optimal route if the ultimate target is Tiger Cubs or equivalent SM HFs.Weiss, Matrix, Baupost, and (potential) Abdiel are among the few outstanding SM HFs with a history of recruiting exceptional HYPS graduates. The Long/Short Equity group at D.E. Shaw is also fantastic.Outliers do exist; for instance, a recent Stanford graduate who studied computer science and statistics joined Tiger Global this year, and he is an investment genius.

 

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