What’s up with the Apollo and Warburg Associates emails

Hey everyone, I’ve been hearing about emails going around regarding a Warburg and Apollo associate involved in something shady. Has anyone received more details on this? Just trying to confirm what’s legit. I’m at an MF (KKR, Carlyle, H&F). Thanks!


 


 

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Can’t be Hellman and Friedman since the kid has confirmed all of his emails bounced today to people there. So you are either at KKR or Carlyle. 

 

The CVP kid exposed some MFPE associates for being corrupt while doing stints at Goldman and Evercore. NGL its juicy since there is receipts of things as well.

 

Bro, this kid cooked him:  working 80-100 hours at Evercore and still finding time to destroy a college student’s life.' 😂😂 You can’t recover from that.

 
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Good joke. And key word you “think”. You cannot prove shit so stay gossiping boomer.

 
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Read from London. Seems those MFPE associates sure have a lot of free time to abuse power. One thing to remember, this isn’t gossip. There are receipts to back up every claim.
Their days are numbered  

 
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The kid made a valid point. Why is someone who is a finance professional working 80-100 hours involved with college drama. The fact many people cannot see the problem with an evercore and Apollo associate abusing power to ruin college students life is ridiculous. 

 

Lol the “kid” is the same nutcase from georgetown that was all over WSO when he didn’t get an RBC return offer and had his CVP offer rescinded when they found out how crazy he acted at rbc. He’s been sending ridiculous emails to half the street and cc’ing McDonough bizschool professors for a while now so nearly every firm knows he’s a lunatic. Not the best look for Georgetown alum unfortunately

 
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Reading through this thread, it’s obvious that most people would rather protect the image than confront the ugly truth: these Apollo and Warburg associates committed unethical actions. Instead of addressing the receipts, the focus shifts to smearing the messenger calling him mentally unstable and falsely claiming he lost Centerview (which isn’t true). The repeated assumption that every account is his without proof (IP addresses, anyone?) speaks volumes. Unfortunately, it reveals where most people here truly stand: on the side of protecting power, not seeking truth.


 

 
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Read the emails and it took a little bit of digging into the evidence the kid compiled but here is what someone compiled and is backed by the evidence the kid brings.

After the kid completed his RBC internship before the meeting even started, he received a text saying they wanted him removed from BlackGen. The meeting was framed as a “discussion,” but the decision to remove him had already been made.

During the meeting, they kept referring to vague policies—nothing about WSO, no clear explanation—just random, unclear reasons to justify their actions. Adejoke, the person leading the meeting, even texted the kid earlier that summer saying how wrong he felt the kid had been treated. Despite knowing that, they still pushed for removal without giving him a chance to explain his side.

It wasn’t until after they removed him that the real reasons surfaced. They believed rumors—that he got fired from RBC and lost his Centerview offer—but none of this was brought up during the actual meeting. Instead, they leaned on vague rules to hide their true intentions.

Only after the Georgetown board members protested, saying “You never even heard his side of the story,” did they offer to listen—but by then, the damage was done. Who was a second-year analyst at Evercore at the time, only made time to hear his story after the fact. That shows a serious lapse in character and leadership.

Fast forward to last semester:  sent cease-and-desist letters and threatened legal action, demanding the Georgetown chapter be shut down entirely and erased. He was doing this while working full-time as an associate at Apollo—a calculated move to silence people and make the problem disappear.

 

That’s why you’ll always be an overworked W2 employee. No matter how many hours you grind, the same biweekly paycheck keeps showing up

 

Reach out to the email for drive link but here is what a source has complied 



After the kid completed his RBC internship before the meeting even started, he received a text saying they wanted him removed from BlackGen. The meeting was framed as a “discussion,” but the decision to remove him had already been made.

During the meeting, they kept referring to vague policies—nothing about WSO, no clear explanation—just random, unclear reasons to justify their actions. Adejoke, the person leading the meeting, even texted the kid earlier that summer saying how wrong he felt the kid had been treated. Despite knowing that, they still pushed for removal without giving him a chance to explain his side.

It wasn’t until after they removed him that the real reasons surfaced. They believed rumors—that he got fired from RBC and lost his Centerview offer—but none of this was brought up during the actual meeting. Instead, they leaned on vague rules to hide their true intentions.

Only after the Georgetown board members protested, saying “You never even heard his side of the story,” did they offer to listen—but by then, the damage was done. Who was a second-year analyst at Evercore at the time, only made time to hear his story after the fact. That shows a serious lapse in character and leadership.

Fast forward to last semester:  Sent cease-and-desist letters and threatened legal action, demanding the Georgetown chapter be shut down entirely and erased. He was doing this while working full-time as an associate at Apollo—a calculated move to silence people and make the problem disappear.

 

Does anyone actually know what happened during his RBC internship? So confused

 

I mean if you want to say exposing people hiding behind fancy titles and abusing power to silence or maintain an image over the truth.

 

From what I gather, this is the gist of it. Founder of a school club (who graduated 2 years ago) decided to bully a student of said club unjustly. Sounds like the equivalent of a college student strongarming a high school club he was in. I wonder if the student ended up having serious reputational risk or somehow denied a job opportunity. It wasn't explained why he went scorched earth.

As a black man, I'm ashamed this is happening. We tear each other down all the time. Drake and Kendrick. Africans and American blacks. Why can't we lift each other up and all win?

 

Champ - none of that is true. Personally know individuals at Georgetown and the kid that’s making these claims is well known on campus to be an absolute psychopath. He’s been kicked out of the school for cheating, lost his internship, etc. and is now taking it out on a random pe asso. Half of the posts in this thread are his own spam accounts. He’s mentally off his rocker. What could’ve been funny lore is unfortunately mid-IQ bait.

 
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Meh, i dont know about calling this one a DEI hire. Fits the MFPE bill To be honest. Ivy (Albeit Low)  -> National Finance Club Founder -> Top BB  SA -> Top HF SA -> Top EB Analyst Stint. Lets not dilute the meaning of DEI hires - at that point you are just contributing to the woke agenda of us being racists.

 

changing stuff now eh. Mad lame. Facts>Gossip. These spaces run on gossip and illusions. The fact everyone  wants to belive a kid lost his offer to centerview they will. That is the narrative. When there is evidence proving other wise. Jesus these elite spaces are fucked. No one has any critical thinking skills. They just believe whatever someone says because of the prestigious credentials and never vet them. 

 

You are clearly ss. Stop trying to ruin someone’s life. Grow up you lost CVP and you are a bum you got expelled from Georgetown too 

 

Reached out to the burner email before the comment got taken down and got the receipts, so I can provide a brief summary. Emails don’t actually show anything substantive to back up OP’s claims, just a bunch of back and forth.


(1) OP is definitely the Georgetown RBC / CVP guy who was infamous on WSO a few months ago

(2) Sometime around summer 2023, OP got kicked out of BlackGen Capital and had a hearing with the founders. 
 

(3) Late January OP apparently got caught in an academic dishonesty case at Georgetown. After a hearing / appeal with the dean or something like that, his defense was denied. 

I’m guessing that OP started spiraling after the events of (3) and decided to lash out at the BlackGen founders and Georgetown faculty with this thread.

 

This definitively dint mean shit on an anonymous website.  You are jumping to conclusions not facts 

 
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LongIslandExpress:

Anything about his startup? Is that real?


He’s hiding out in Singapore last I heard

 

He is a fraud! I close to one of his best friends and he told me his grand master plan but in reality I think he’s just schizophrenic. He told me he was going to do this and is a believer that he has extreme power because Gtown faculty just began to ignore therefore claiming that they surrendered. 

He should be institutionalized. If you see this, as I know you will, I ask you to stop before I expose you for everything and all the shady sh*t you do both legal and illegal. I am a Gtown student and have access to his paper which he submitted, am willing to post here and let the audience see the utter dishonesty he submitted which got us here in the first place. 

STOP TRYING TO RUIN PEOPLE

 

Read through all the pages of comments to learn that this is his*notes* a fucking diversity finance club? OP getting kicked out of this STUDENT RUN CLUB did not “ruin your life”. *YOU* ruined your life by being a fucking spazz. Jeez at least when the GS13 drama came out it was about something interesting, the kids nowadays are bitching about unfair treatment by alumni from student clubs now?? Lmao this has no impact or reflection on Apollo/Warburg. I hope OP finds peace

 
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After wasting 10 minutes of my life reading this post, the wise words from Billy Madison entered my mind... "OP, What you've just said is one of the most insanely idiotic things I have ever heard. At no point in your rambling, incoherent response were you even close to anything that could be considered a rational thought. Everyone [on WSO] is now dumber for having listened to it. I award you no points, and may God have mercy on your soul."

Good luck, Sir.

 
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Legit worst kind of clickbait

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I read the emails and I literally had no idea what was going on it was so incoherent. 

 

Under his name? I thought he closed down his account. Where can I read this lol

 

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