Where Did The Biggest Hardo's From Your School End Up After College?
Biggest finance hardo from my high school is doing economic research at a reputable thinktank, kinda cool.
Biggest finance hardo from my semi-target LAC (think Hamilton/Bowdoin) struck out. Completely.
Feels weirdly gratifying seeing people who were know-it-alls in Freshman year not do aswell as they hoped.
Again, I hope the majority of people succeed, just not pretentious know-it-all dbags.
MS/GS MD
Of the list I can think of:
Morgan Stanley M&A IB --> Hellman & Friedman --> Harvard
Goldman IB --> Clayton, Dubillier and Rice
Goldman IB --> KKR
Lazard IB --> Ares
Morgan Stanley M&A IB --> Well known HF
Gonna give us everything except the HF? You tease.
Haha I think that one might give me away paired with other info I've offered on this forum
A few hardos I know completely struck out and didn’t land a good SA or had to settle for less. When I think of hardo, I think of the kids that breathe finance and have no personality. They probably suck at interviewing so probably couldn’t get past the first rounds.
The biggest finance hardos from my college ended up in IB mostly now that I think of it. The cooler better looking ones ended up at respectable shops. The 2 I disliked the most ended up at a no-name boutique and the other at FT Partners which makes me happy. The biggest hardo from my high school ended up in MBB which makes no sense because he had no personality and the Asian hardos ended up at Berkeley before non-FAANG tech jobs
Biggest hardo from my high school went MIT -> Jane Street -> Quant Fund
5 biggest hardos I know of from my school (private super-target) went:
college -> Evercore RX -> Top distressed fund (direct promote without getting kicked out, now on partner track).
college -> GS TMT -> GA -> Stanford GSB MBA -> another (smaller) Growth shop
college -> MS -> CD&R
college -> Jefferies -> MF PE -> HBS MBA -> UMM PE
college -> Schwarzman Scholar -> Yale Law -> Top RX group -> distressed fund
From my high school:
Top private school -> L/S HF
Top private school -> Distressed fund
Midwest public -> MF PE -> Top BB IB (?)
Top private school -> JEF Houston -> MF Energy PE
Top private school -> Top RX group -> PhD
Lesson learned, I’ll be a hardo given the path of these people ~
It really depends, some people misconstrue being successful with being a hardo. I did Ivy feeder -> Ivy -> IB -> PE and most of the successful people I know are very social, normal people. They talk about sports, traveling, friends, family, and other normal shit.
In my opinion, hardo means you constantly think and talk about finance/work. The guys who exclusively talked about finance, recruiting, etc. (you know the type) in high school, college, post-college are almost always less successful than the guys who have actual lives. That’s my take.
I went to a pretty mediocre high school so the hardo in my class was the annoying politics kid rather than the finance hardo. He went to college in DC, moved to SE Asia to do "international development," and is now doing his MBA at some third tier school in Europe. So in other words, he hasn't strayed one bit from his path of becoming the embodiment of a champagne socialist.
I was the biggest hardo in high school and at my university (I went to a top of the top university where most kids think they're too good for plebeian jobs like mere finance so they go into politics or taking over daddy's business).
I went Oxford PPE -> McKinsey -> CVP M&A -> MBA at Wharton -> Apollo -> Rhodes Scholar doing a MA Econ at Oxford -> Apollo -> Professional NFL Player -> Tier 1 Rapper -> Certified Playboy -> PJT RSSG
Just wanted to bump this
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