Growth Equity - Day to Day Work

What is the day to day life as an analyst in Growth Equity (750+MM AUM)? Curious to understand what the job would entail. How much is just trying to source different investments vs modeling, research market dynamics, competitors, etc?

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1. Open laptop

2. Read newsletters check news

3. Reply to emails from blasts from the night / weekend before and deal related emails

4. back to back to back calls with potential targets that you set up via cold calls

5. Get yelled at by a random CEO for harassing with email blasts

6. Dick around with other analysts

7. Spend late afternoon/early evening going through emails and checking with deal team of deals that are being diligences / you sourced

8. Follow up with any specific companies per request from deal team

9. Eat dinner / gym

10. Research more industries / dig out more names / find contacts and blast out emails to 200 targets 

11. Go to bed thinking about fat bonus checks you would get from sourcing a deal and remind yourself that sourcing is better than banking and that you should learn some execution/modeling somewhere along the way if you want to make a career out of investing 

12. Wake up and rinse and repeat

13. Have some sort of an existential crisis every once in a while during long periods of sourced deals dying 

 

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