High School Senior attending Stanford this fall
Hi all, I am currently a high school senior that will be starting at Stanford this fall as an economics major. I am interested in pursuing a career in either private equity or venture capital and was wondering what internships I should target for this summer or the summer between my freshman and sophomore year. I am looking to get a head start and want to have as much internship experience under my belt as possible by the time I'm searching for full time roles. I've cold-emailed and even spoke to many people in search of an internship this summer, but have had no luck. If anyone has any general suggestions or comments they'd like to share, I'd appreciate it. As a side note, I have nothing to do this summer and would be bored sitting at home, so it'd be nice to even find a part-time internship.
Try PE internship. They often hire unpaid interns for business development and sourcing.
Stanford's an awesome school, congrats! PE out of school is hard - we might take 1-2 kids a year. Other top funds might take like 5-10, but it's a total crapshoot. Plus, you're going to be competing with kids like this Shaquille Oatmeal kid here on WSO, he's your age and I would say a kid like that is well ahead of his time. Maybe try to reach out to him and figure out how he learned so much, because it'll be a hell of a lot easier to get an internship if you know a thing or two about PE/VC...
Next summer maybe try to get an internship @ a sub $1bn VC fund in the valley since your at Stanford, sophomore summer lock in an IB/EB summer gig (top groups are: GS TMT, MS M&A, PJT RSSG, EVR, Moelis, Centerview etc) OR maybe try to land a seat at another mega fund, then you recruit for an SA spot at a MF for junior summer. Obviously not a college kid anymore so I don't know if all of those places take sophomores, but those are the types of places that we hire associates from. Hope this helped
Unrelated: not sure if this is a fake post, but your post history suggests you already have an internship in NYC...
Thanks for your comment and all the insight - really appreciate it! I'm actually posting this on behalf of my cousin, so forwarding him the responses haha. He'll definitely find this to be valuable info.
There's a few PE / Growth funds that hire from Stanford for off-cycle internships. Look into Permira.
Look into TMT groups at BB, they take sophomore summer analysts (GS, MS, BAML, etc). Puts you in good starting place for junior SA PE recruiting
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