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Don't worry, you won't have to do any underwriting in M&A, which will let you focus 100% of your time on making sure all the font sizes in the memorandum are correct, all the bullet points in your pitch book are exactly lined up, and the CAGR lines on your graphs are exactly the right shade of green.

- Capt K - "Prestige is like a powerful magnet that warps even your beliefs about what you enjoy. If you want to make ambitious people waste their time on errands, bait the hook with prestige." - Paul Graham
 

God I hate using custom colors.

Our firm has 5-6 custom colors we use for everything, and you have to manually enter them every time you work on a different document.

When I wanted to get into banking, I did not think of ever doing such work on a regular basis.

Super Nintendo, Sega Genesis - when I was dead broke man I couldn't picture this
 

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