How We Broke Into Private Equity

Private Equity Funcast by Jim Milbery

May 27, 202640:50Business

How do you make the leap from the college quad to private equity? Associates Liz Xu and Niko Ivanisevic share their unexpected journey to the offices of ParkerGale. They get honest about imposter syndrome, the myth of th...

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