Payments to VC or Banking?
Big ask: Anyone have advice to transition from B2B payments to VC or CIB? Intensive working capital/treasury/paymentech background providing automation to AP/AR depts from mid market to fortune 500's. Started out in an early stage fintech where I priced one too many deals for prospects, upstarted a few operations, and jumped ship after series B (3 year stint). Covid happened so I took a remote strategy and operations role for a public competitor but the remote setting absolutely does not work for my personality and struggling to create the narrative for the transition on paper. Most work done in excel, power bi, and pp. Doing an MBA in finance at a non target starting fall 21 so relying on my experience to get my foot in the door. 150+ cold apps are a bust and already used some willing connections to get my resume looked at but hitting walls. Plan on using startup experience as an angle for VC. Open to CIB as I've seen wholesale payments teams at BB's if anyone has knowledge on that. My experience is niche, so lmk if clarification is needed. Thanks, monkeys.
You are a fool for getting an MBA at a nontarget and expecting to be able to go into VC or banking. If you want the truth, you shot yourself in the foot here.
What you should have done is jacked your GMAT up. Even if your work experience is awful, with a 720 GMAT you can get into a T20 school. From there on, you are somewhat eligible for MM banking. Respectable VC's straight up do not do MBA recruiting outside of HSW (+ maybe UCB, MIT), and small name VC's really don't recruit outside of the T15.
But no, you decided not to read any of the forums here or on other sites, and make a foolish decision. Sorry for the rant, but I don't understand that at all. What's the point of asking for advice after you have already done something reckless (within context of what you want)
If I was in your shoes I would find a similar job ASAP, jack your GMAT up over the next year and then reapply so that you can get into a T20-T15.
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