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Unless you're top bucket from GS TMT/MS Menlo it's highly doubtful you even have the option to choose between these two. Thoma lights out wins for software + you have the bonus of potentially being in the Miami office (lower COL, taxes, but comp is the same). SL you'll have a much wider variety of deals you look at and it has more of a white-shoe reputation, which extends to the culture also being a bit stuffier. 

"If you don't have any enemies in life you have never stood up for anything" - Winston Churchill | "It's a testament to the sheer belligerence of the profession that people would rather argue about the 'risk-adjusted returns' of using inferior tooth cleaning methods." - kellycriterion
 

Worth waiting for off cycle to recruit for TB Vista SLO if goal is software / tech investing? Any tech names go on cycle even remotely close to these 3?

 

I'm not the one to ask about cycles man I didn't even do banking and work in MM. Totally up to you. I would not say anyone else comes close to those 3 in software. 

"If you don't have any enemies in life you have never stood up for anything" - Winston Churchill | "It's a testament to the sheer belligerence of the profession that people would rather argue about the 'risk-adjusted returns' of using inferior tooth cleaning methods." - kellycriterion
 

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"If you don't have any enemies in life you have never stood up for anything" - Winston Churchill | "It's a testament to the sheer belligerence of the profession that people would rather argue about the 'risk-adjusted returns' of using inferior tooth cleaning methods." - kellycriterion

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