Breaking News: New Alexey Vayner?
The new Aleksey Vayner has just hit Wall Street. I don't know how to upload files nor have the time to do so but there is an applicant from the University of Florida who recently applied to Goldman Sachs. Typical story right? Unfortunately his resume and cover letter were so unique that this forwarded email has been making the rounds at all the banks.
Anyone who is employed right now, please check your emails or ask your fellow employees to forward it to you.
Cover Letter:
My name is [name redacted]. As of this moment you probably have never heard of me before and I accept that, but in five years you will look back unable to imagine life without me. My desire to succeed in the investment industry is beyond comparison and I will not stop working towards this goal until the day my heart stops beating. I would love to say my parents or teachers in the past taught me the value of investments and the proper ways to handle them at a young age, but this would not be the truth. The truth is my mind created the concept before I was even old enough to understand it. At age 6, I would buy candy from Sam's Club wholesale and trade it in the lunchroom for items several times its value. At age 11, I purchased a $180 TV for my brother and charged him $10 a week for 25 weeks. Even as I write this letter, I'm getting phone calls and text messages from people asking what stocks I put my money in today and where they should put theirs tomorrow. This is the life I live every day but I don't want to stay like this forever, I want to learn and I don't want to settle. Goldman Sachs is where I want to work and there's no alternative in my mind. Allow me this opportunity and I will be the best investor you have ever seen. I will work non stop to make sure Goldman Sachs stays on top for as long as I breathe. I'm not asking you to do this for me, I'm asking you to do this for us.
I do not quit. I will achieve greatness. To me, failure is an opportunity to do better next time and a lesson learned. I do not work for status or prestige, I believe that the only way to true success is perfecting the arts of communication and efficiency both in and out of the workplace. I listen before I judge and I think before I speak; it is these qualities that make up my character and allow me to perform the tasks I take on with greater efficiency than others. Time is precious, sacred perhaps; it is one thing we can never get back and one thing I do not intend to waste. I work well even in an atmosphere of urgency and still understand the important of patience. I am forever learning and I sincerely hope in the near future we can begin to learn from one another.
*Subject: *Fw: As you requested
This kid is ridic
Sent from my Verizon Wireless BlackBerry
*From: *XXXXXX
*Date: *Fri, 22 Jan 2010 13:56:24 -0500
*To: *XXXXXXXXXXX; [email protected]
*Subject: *FW: As you requested
From:XXXXXXXXXXX Sent: Friday, January 22, 2010 1:11 PM To:XXXXXXXXXXX Subject: FW: As you requested
check it out. I think u guys should hire this guy haha
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XXXXXXXXXXX | ECCD Operate - NewYork team | 383 Madison Avenue, Floor 4, New York | XXXXXXXXXXX | [email protected] |
From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Friday, January 22, 2010 1:00 PM To: XXXXXXXXXXX Subject: Fwd: As you requested
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From: "XXXXXXXXXXX "Date: January 22, 2010 12:55:24 PM EST
To: "'XXXXXXXXXXX'" ,
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Subject: FW: As you requested
i like him, he seems pretty chill
From: XXXXXXXXXXX [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Thursday, January 21, 2010 11:26 PM To: XXXXXXXXXXX [ICG-GBKG]; [email protected]; XXXXXXXXXXX [ICG-GBKG]; [email protected]; XXXXXXXXXXX@Evercore.com; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; XXXXXXXXXXX; XXXXXXXXXXX Subject: Fw: As you requested
Ahh .. reading it actually gives me the chills
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01/21/2010 03:21 PM
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XXXXXXXXXXX Financial Institutions Group Deutsche Bank Securities Inc. 60 Wall Street, 11th Floor New York, N.Y. 10005 Tel XXXXXXXXXXX Fax XXXXXXXXXXX [email protected] ----- Forwarded by XXXXXXXXXXX/db/dbcom on 01/21/2010 03:21 PM -----
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01/21/2010 03:18 PM
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assuming you guys got this * XXXXXXXXXXX* Deutsche Bank Securities Financial Institutions Group 60 Wall Street, 11th Floor | New York, NY 10005 Office: XXXXXXXXXXX | Mobile: XXXXXXXXXXX | Fax: XXXXXXXXXXX [email protected] ----- Forwarded by XXXXXXXXXXX/db/dbcom on 01/21/2010 03:18 PM -----
XXXXXXXXXXX/db/dbcom
01/21/2010 01:55 PM
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XXXXXXXXXXX Deutsche Bank Securities Inc. Global Banking - Financial Institutions Group 60 Wall Street, 11th Floor New York, NY 10005
(O) : XXXXXXXXXXX (C) : XXXXXXXXXXX
[email protected]
----- Forwarded by XXXXXXXXXXX/db/dbcom on 01/21/2010 01:49 PM -----
XXXXXXXXXXX/db/dbcom
01/21/2010 01:42 PM
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XXXXXXXXXXX/db/dbcom, XXXXXXXXXXX/db/dbcom, XXXXXXXXXXX/db/dbcom, XXXXXXXXXXX/db/dbcom@DBAmericas, XXXXXXXXXXX/db/dbcom@DBAmericas, XXXXXXXXXXX/db/dbcom@DBAmericas, XXXXXXXXXXX/db/dbcom@DBAmericas, XXXXXXXXXXX/db/dbcom@DBAmericas, XXXXXXXXXXX/db/dbcom@DBAmericas
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Fw: As you requested
papa bear, your duty to forward to all 1st years
Best,
XXXXXXXXXXX Leveraged Finance Deutsche Bank 60 Wall Street New York, NY 10005 Tel: XXXXXXXXXXX Fax: XXXXXXXXXXX Cell: XXXXXXXXXXX ----- Forwarded by XXXXXXXXXXX/db/dbcom on 01/21/2010 01:41 PM -----
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01/21/2010 01:27 PM
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This kid is going to be a legend...
----- Forwarded by XXXXXXXXXXX/JEFCO on 01/21/2010 01:25 PM -----
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01/21/2010 01:21 PM
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wow.
XXXXXXXXXXX XXXXXXXXXXX Technology Group Investment Banking Department
Jefferies & Company, Inc. 520 Madison Avenue, 7th Floor New York, NY 10022 Office: XXXXXXXXXXX Mobile: XXXXXXXXXXX Fax: XXXXXXXXXXX Email: XXXXXXXXXXX@Jefferies.com ----- Forwarded by XXXXXXXXXXX/JEFCO on 01/21/2010 01:21 PM -----
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01/21/2010 12:37 PM
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From: XXXXXXXXXXX: IBD (NYK) * Sent:* Thursday, January 21, 2010 12:10 PM* To:* XXXXXXXXXXX: IBD (NYK)* Subject:* FW: As you requested
omg..............
From: XXXXXXXXXXX: IBD (NYK) * Sent:* Thursday, January 21, 2010 11:48 AM* To:* XXXXXXXXXXX: IBD (NYK)* Subject:* FW: As you requested
From: XXXXXXXXXXX: IBD (NYK) * Sent:* Thursday, January 21, 2010 11:45 AM* To:* XXXXXXXXXXX: IBD (NYK); XXXXXXXXXXX: IBD (NYK)* Subject:* FW: As you requested
this is amazing
From: XXXXXXXXXXX [mailto:[email protected]] * Sent:* Thursday, January 21, 2010 10:58 AM* To:* XXXXXXXXXXX: IBD (NYK); XXXXXXXXXXX (IBD); XXXXXXXXXXX: IBD (NYK)* Subject:* FW: As you requested
Pls read the cover letter...
______________________________________________ * From: * XXXXXXXXXXX * Sent: * Thursday, January 21, 2010 10:49 AM * To: * XXXXXXXXXXX; XXXXXXXXXXX; XXXXXXXXXXX; XXXXXXXXXXX; XXXXXXXXXXX* Subject: * FW: As you requested
How are is IU going to compete with studs like this?
______________________________________________ * From: * XXXXXXXXXXX * Sent: * Wednesday, January 20, 2010 8:48 PM * To: * XXXXXXXXXXX * Subject: * FW: As you requested
Here is a sampling of the high quality recruits we are pulling from UF. Courtesy of Sumeet. >
______________________________________________ * From: * XXXXXXXXXXX * Sent: * Wednesday, January 20, 2010 8:38 PM * To: * XXXXXXXXXXX; XXXXXXXXXXX; XXXXXXXXXXX * Subject: * FW: As you requested
______________________________________________ * From: * XXXXXXXXXXX * Sent: * Wednesday, January 20, 2010 8:36 PM * To: * XXXXXXXXXXX * Subject: * As you requested
I assume you will be forwarding around so I blacked out his contact info.
____________________________________________ * Goldman, Sachs & Co.* 85 Broad Street | New York, NY 10004 Tel: XXXXXXXXXXX | Fax: XXXXXXXXXXX E-mail: [email protected] * * * XXXXXXXXXXX* * Goldman * Investment Banking Division* Sachs* Financial Institutions Group
LET THE LEGEND OF JEREMY KING BEGIN
Epic. People love GOLDMAN
this is more similar to aleksey vayner than jeff chiang
I actually feel kind of bad for this kid.
You're right, I'll edit. There were also more hilarious comments later on but I had to protect my bank colleague's privacy.
I edited out all the contact/personal details of those who forwarded it, please remember to take them out yourself next time.
BANK OF AMERICA SUCKSSSSSSS. brb, going to get some checks from BAML
thats funny but i would seriously take all those names off the chain emails. i think my cover letters pretty crazy too
Attached is my resumé. I strongly believe that I can contribute my prior investment banking experience and analytical skills to your firm. Thank you for your consideration and I look forward to hearing back from you.
"Even as I write this letter, I'm getting phone calls and text messages from people asking what stocks I put my money in today and where they should put theirs tomorrow. This is the life I live every day but I don't want to stay like this forever"
Hahahaha.
whats with these lunatic state school kids?
"I'm not asking you to do this for me, I'm asking you to do this for us." = the best and creepiest line ever from a cover letter
Also, 1styearbanker, what's with all the funky, non-traditional last names ending in vowels on that e-mail chain? is this investment banking or retail at banana republic?
Affirmative: Don't blame me, I'm not working at DB those damn foreigners
Drexel: Thanks.
yeah you should take the names out of the emails, i recognized a few.
I feel bad for this kid - he has balls.
I wonder how long his facebook profile will be up for? I just did a quick search, and he's a fan of Goldman Sachs haha.
Do you think he has any idea this is going on?
Dis all you want, but the kid has some writing talent.
Incorrect. Part of it lacks subject-verb agreement--something I find completely unacceptable in a covering letter. I also don't like the cadence, and the tone is clearly F'ed. Most of (good) writing is understanding your audience. Do you think anyone reading his covering letter is going to give him an interview? My old boss (a serious asshole and Sr. MD) sent me this e-mail as a joke. I didn't even think it was real until my two housemates from GS sent it to me. No one is taking him seriously. Why? Because this kid isn't going to want to get me coffee and lunch (sometimes breakfast). He's not going to want to run the P&L, get in before everyone, turn on their computers, and sign-in all of the necessary programmes. But that's the job of a first-year trader (at least for the first 6 months).
What he should have is, "I will suck on your hang-dang for a chance to work at GS." Instead, he wrote, "I think there's a good chance that you're going to want to blow me. Oh, and also give me a job at GS." If he interviewed with us, I would have him write a new covering letter on the spot before we even started speaking.
Epic.
BEST post ever!! LOL
Not really all that funny and not similar to Vayner and Jeffrey Chiang at all. Those two blatantly lied on their applications.
This is just a poor state school sap trying to make it in the big leagues. I commend him for his effort and impeccable college admissions essay writing skills.
Well...I searched for his facebook profile. I can't find it. Poor kid.
It's definitely up there.
oh, found it.
too bad his profile isn't public....although his little self-selected identifier is "The Jeremy King Project"
http://www.facebook.com/thejeremykingproject?ref=search&sid=583038763.7…
OMG, this boy is screwed
HAHA, why on earth do people do this. He should spend his time trying to get extra internships and network his ass off. Sending this pretty much ruined his chance to work for Goldman and now he is the laughing stock of arguably the largest investment banking message board online. Sounds like this kid is more stock jockey than Ibanker. Should of talked about getting an erection doing excel modeling or something.
" I listen before I judge and I think before I speak;" ... for some reason I doubt this
he can prob get a decent 6 figure settlement now by suing. not like the banks will hire anyone once obama takes over
I had completely forgotten about that cover letter. I knew i didn't stand a chance by just applying online and I have no family in any type of banking so I figured as long as I was dreaming I might as well dream big. You all might be upset to know that the rest of my cover letters were much more toned down and for those of you who also saw my resume, it's not quite as ridiculous anymore either. Obviously I did not get an interview at Goldman and at the time I wrote that letter, I was definitely more of a stock jockey than a true investor and truly thought my short term gains were sustainable in the long run. I'm not quite as naive now as I was then which is good, but at the time I was averaging 13% a week gains and feeling pretty invincible, which explains why I got a little cockier than usual. Reading over it now I did seem a bit crazy, but when 2009 started i had nothing and now I don't even need to work (although I still do) so I guess that craziness did something for me. And the jeremy king project thing was an inside joke from a music theory class in high school. If you have any more questions you can just message me on facebook as so many of you already have.
seriously? seriously? clowns like you really think you are something else.... go rent out some tvs
Does anyone else think this could be a joke? Like, a really really well done satire? The sheer insanity of the cover letter and resume mission statement is insane. Beyond that, the insanity of those compared to the mediocre (blah) work experience makes it seem too funny to be true.
At least, I hope.
http://dealbreaker.com/2010/01/prospective-goldman-intern-wil.php
It says he worked at Hollister Co. and Sylvan Learning Center.
LMAO
I thought these types of applications were confidential no? Why are applications being leaked? I don't think this kid did anything wrong. Sure he wrote a horrible cover letter and resume but come on this is getting out of hand.
who the hell is leaking all these resumes and cover letters? have fun getting sued and fired
how the hell does he have a 3.92 with such shitty SAT's?
He went to U of Florida....
props to jeremy (if thats him) for acknowledging everything and taking it in stride
and SATs arent the be all and end all, its one exam when youre in 11th grade it shouldnt matter nearly as much as it should (full disclosure - i got >2300 so not speaking in self interest)
my cousin went to university of florida and did nothing and got a 4.0. so his gpa is nothing to be proud of with that low SAT.
i had the flu when i took the sat, but my score got me the scholarship i needed so i just went with it. by the time i got to college i no longer had the flu, hence the gpa. and i work pretty hard, if you want i can send you a copy of a cover letter i once wrote to goldman sachs talking about how hard i work.
To me this provees that its not him
If that was my letter someone would be getting sued out the ass.
so i can show how petty i am? if they want to make jokes, that's up to them
I'm still not even convinced that Jeremy King is real. Something is fishy about this whole thing.
With that said. I do not quit. I will achieve greatness.
A few things... take someone like Alex Vaynard, his application was egregious and arguably he is/was in need of serious psychological help. He never had a shot in hell in landing a job in IBD.
This kid, sans his complete cluelessness, could have eventually gotten there. I was at one point pretty naive too, albeit not like this, but still I eventually learned how to play the game and cracked into the field.
This guy, I would say could do it. If he legally changes his name, gets some career coaching, he has a good shot at getting a job.
So the point of all these statements is that Jeremy, without all this ridicule HAD the opportunity to one day land this job. And now he does not. In fact, he may just be precluded from a lot of jobs, not just one at GS, or one on Wall Street, as a result of all this attention. He would have a decent case to come up with a 6, possibly 7 figure lawsuit and tack on a 7+ figure claim for punitive damages. If he's lucky he can get it tried in Florida with a jury trial, which I'm sure would be less than sympathetic to a New York Wall Street investment bank, which happens to be called Goldman Sachs. Obviously it will never even make it this far, in my opinion, this kid can literally get a multi-million dollar settlement.
yeah I could see the liberal mainstream media grabbing a hold of this story and running with it
more main street vs wall street BS
With the way he invests, I give him three years to get on the Forbes list with the money from the settlement.
Haha nice.
I agree with Marcus, this guy should be able to sue them. It's also not cool of the guys in the bank to forward this around with the applicant's name knowing it will ruin him forever. They should be fired for that.
I feel bad for the guy. Coming out of a non-target, I've also blindly submitted apps online, and rarely do I think twice about my cover letter. I assume no one is even going to look at my resume, much less actually go through the cover letter. Hopefully the guy is able to bounce back, although with his resume, I don't think he had much of a shot to begin with.
We will be making an exclusive interview with Jeremy King live tomorrow night on WSO (hopefully) so he can tell his side of the story. We'll try to get audio and text up.
Stay Tuned, Patrick
How do we tune in?
We will try to get an audio file and some text up on the home page tonight. I'm going to call him to get his side of the story tonight.
How do we know if it's really him?
One of my sales guy that helps me with licensing the guides is a senior at UF and contacted him directly. We said we'd be willing to give him a forum to express his side of the story and he accepted.
I guess it's only fair then. I personally thought that he was just f*cking around with GS. Would love to hear what he has to say about this situation. Kudos to WSO for setting this up.
I thought this guy was the new Alexey Vayner...
http://www.wallstreetoasis.com/forums/resume-help-english-is-my-2nd-lan…
http://www.wallstreetoasis.com/forums/resume-help-english-is-my-2nd-lan…
Here on WSO no less!
lol so that's really him then?
wow, UF must have some crazy grade inflation ....
What time's this interview going down? Can we suggest questions?
I think this is a joke. The identifier on facebook profile "the jeremy king project" isnt what somebody would put on their own page. I actually think this resume was submitted exactly to get this response, which is of course just as condescending and snobbish as would be expected of a group of goldman investment banking tools. I think the only people who might end up getting hurt by this are the idiots who forwarded the resume around the bank.
what time is the interview?
If thats the case, its pure genius.
Please ask him why he's such a dick to his brother to charge him for TV. That shit is unbelievable to go to a family member every week to demand 10 bucks, I would've slapped him in the face and ridiculed him for going to UF.
agreed. ripping off your own brother is bad, but BRAGGING about it to Goldman Sachs is idiotic.
Actually, I know his brother. Here's what happened: the one who sold his TV received $180 upfront which he subsequently loaned to a third brother receiving $13 a week for 25 weeks in return. Knowing the third brother would default, brother 2 bought CDS on B3 from Jeremy at a price inconsistent with the level of risk of B3. So Jeremy got fucked big time in the trade IMO.
the interview is up. To download it right click on the .wav file and save it down to your computer (if it's not working in your browser / Quicktime): http://www.wallstreetoasis.com/blog/jeremy-king-exclusive-interview
Any way to view the interview?
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