Someone please tell me does this man’s professional background add up to him being a multimillionaire in PE. His name is Sherraud Roberts, Seems like a pretty decent guy and apparently made ‘millions’ in one year in PE. Something seems a bit off especially since he mentioned he made millions in 1 year.
The video I’m referring:
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He's an MBA Associate (aka intern) so he ain't making "multiple millions". However, his LI states he went up to VP in Investment Banking so it's theoretically possibl, but he would have had to have been performing top decile to see that kind of cash. I'm doubtful.
Nope the interviewer in the video is clearly asking him the greatest amount of money he made in a single year - a SocGen VP is not making "multiple millions"
What's he talking about re: risk aversion? IB and PE do not seem like great places for people who want to take big personal risks
King of the cap.
This coming up in everyone else’s algo too? lol
So quick google shows this guy is clearly an MBA summer intern at a LMM/MM PE firm.
The thing that I find just confusing is he is legitimately a successful guy who worked his way up from super tough circumstances to become IB VP at SocGen, get into Wharton for his MBA, and now (if his internship goes well) break into PE as a post-MBA associate.
Despite all that he still feels the need to blatantly lie to a random dude holding a phone up to him on the street. I’m not really hating I just don’t get why you wanna lie in that situation.
Agreed. Dude essentially “made it” by most people’s standards.
Yeah, I agree. Why lie? His story of breaking into IB, coming from the background, would have been interesting enough. Also, not hating, but I think the problem people have is him stating that he made several million dollars in one year within private equity. However, he has never had a full-time role in PE. Also, to top it off, his summer internship at the LMM PE firm finished in 2021, and he's been out of work since then. I'm sorry, but let me state again that I'm no hater. Him claiming he made several million dollars in PE is a blatant lie, especially since he's never technically been in the industry. I guess some people assume that if someone can blatantly lie about that on camera, who knows what else he is also lying about?
I think given his background / upbringing, he's done well for himself. There's a possibility some stuff he said was exaggerated, clip / responses could've been cropped, or he's trolling since it's tiktok, but why would some random person in some interview clip become the subject of debate to begin with? He's not selling courses on how to make millions in pe, probably just an entry level guy who was grateful he got into the industry to begin with and can work on deals at his company
Yeah response in video looks edited / cropped, or that guy just bsing. Who cares though it’s a tiktok
because kids prefer to analyze mindless TikToks instead of doing something more useful with their time, so then they can blame the economy for not getting a job instesd of them and their autistic concerns
Keep in mind that being worth $2m technically makes you a "multimillionaire" and even if he works at a tiny PE fund in the middle of nowhere he is thereby a private equity multimillionaire. We already know he's playing it fast and loose with the facts after saying that Wharton is the #1 BSchool in the world haha
I don't like people that talk about their adversity. We all have shit, some more than others. I was molested by my mother when I was 8 and I'm not running around town preaching.
What did she do?
Cap. We have a moron who acts like this in our class too (an international). The whole class can't stand him lol.
Like everything on Tik Tok, it is true
This guy was in the Trade and Commodity Finance group (essentially just providing working capital financing for physical commodity traders - much more portfolio management than deal making) for SocGen out of Houston. I know from personal experience that this is a far cry from investment banking. Not trying to take anything away from where he came from and where he is now but just adding context to this specific claim.
Nothing wrong with VP at Socgen, but it ain't PE.
Seems like cap and sponsored content to me
Millions? No.
I believe he is doing what Gen Z calls "fronting".
Two other explanations come to mind besides that he’s lying -
1) Could’ve taken a vp bonus at soc gen and put it in options on some risky gamble in 2021 and made 5-10x
2) Could be talking about carried interest if he received a verbal offer to return full time as a sr. associate and he’s stretching truth?
He’s exaggerating to make himself seem more successful. His second statement was that Wharton is the #1 business school in the world, which is another exaggeration to make himself seem more successful. If he had gone to HBS then maybe he could claim that but the title of best business school in the world goes to GSB (objectively).
I wouldn’t be that surprised if he had a net worth in the millions but there’s no way he made multiple millions a year unless he won the lottery or bet a lot of money on some risky shit.
Hbs is the most prestigious of all institutions
Is it possible that the guy made a shit ton of money one year that didn't come from his job? He never said he made millions from PE or IB so the way you phrase the post is a bit unfair to him.
Q- "What is the most money you made in a year?"
A- "Multiple millions."
No mention of PE.
Pretty sure he's just talking about his (unrealized) carry
EDIT: nevermind. If he's still an intern, he's most certainly capping
It’s certainly possible, but I don’t see any way it happened through institutionalized PE.
For example, an independent sponsor colleague of mine flipped a small company as an add-on to an MM PortCo earlier this year and made $5mm (with less than $200k of personal investment). He flipped it in less than 2 years, basically found a solid base business that was terribly managed and restructured it with common sense and some elbow grease. Obviously an outlier success story but its certainly possible and has been done.
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