How can a person make the most money with a 30 year career in finance? Is the outcome best in PE, VC, HF, IB?
How can a person make the most money with a 30 year career in finance? Is the outcome best in PE, VC, HF, IB?
Trending Content - Venture Capital Forum
| +6 | New Growth Equity Firms | 3 | 2w |
| +3 | NEA Fellowship 2027 | 0 | 3w |
| +3 | .nnmsk | 1 | 2w |
| +1 | Investment Committee Process Thwarts Creative Thinking | 3 | 4d |
Career Resources
Founding your own top HF > Founding a really good VC > Reaching partner at GS IBD > Founding a mediocre PE firm > being a great MD in IBD > Founding an eh HF > Being an okay MD in IBD > Founding a very eh VC > Never making it to MD in IBD because you couldn't source deals > Founding a failed HF that collapses very quickly as most do > Not being able to raise a fund in PE and not being hired by anyone because you're too old and expensive so now you have to move to some boring corporate strategy role
Hopefully you get the point - you can have a very lucrative or very bad career in any of these fields. Do what you're good at, not what you think might make you the most money. The money will come.
This seems about right, I'd imagine the top HF and VC partners are making way more than top PE partners.
How about working for HF, where would that be on the scale? Make a partner there, founding my own HF is a big risk/reward.
Quis quam impedit dolores porro. Qui quia laborum velit voluptatem. A fugit cum nobis qui. Accusamus minus rerum delectus maiores nihil.
Ad rerum in rerum enim neque perspiciatis. Aut ut omnis vel dolorem. Voluptatibus non laudantium non rerum. Est unde ex sint velit magnam natus illo labore.
In nulla perferendis voluptatem. Reprehenderit quae eaque incidunt esse laborum cumque. Aut earum voluptatem eum ut beatae debitis.
Voluptatem quisquam aut non et libero natus. Tenetur quisquam cumque enim natus corporis esse. Qui eaque qui et. Aliquam molestias et commodi rerum cupiditate cupiditate sed.
See All Comments - 100% Free
WSO depends on everyone being able to pitch in when they know something. Unlock with your email and get bonus: 6 financial modeling lessons free ($199 value)
or Unlock with your social account...