If WSO teamed up

If everyone on WSO (including people who browse rarely) teamed up to form an investment bank/ PE firm/ HF etc, how would this financial institution fare? Let the actual MDs/ partners on WSO (if there are) be the MDs/ senior partners etc, analysts be analysts. Everyone takes on their title so everyone is doing work they are experienced with. Would this institution last one day, or would it be venerable

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It would pretty much be like the show Billions (early seasons only).... 

"If you always put limits on everything you do, physical or anything else, it will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them." - Bruce Lee
 

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Pizz would cause chaos amongst the MDs and their wives

We could make Pizz the Chief Diversity Officer.

"If you always put limits on everything you do, physical or anything else, it will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them." - Bruce Lee
 
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Pizz would cause chaos amongst the MDs and their wives

We could make Pizz the Chief Diversity Officer.

Diversity of dividing those legs. Sorry, had to say it.

The poster formerly known as theAudiophile. Just turned up to 11, like the stereo.
 

Except in this case M&A stands for "melancholy and autism" based on the non-political off-topic posts the past year or so.

I'll gladly be in charge of administering drug tests, I guarantee we'll be a clean shop ;)

just trying to live like Hunter S Thompson
 

It would be a more financially literate wallstreetbets, let's not kid ourselves. 

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