Why I Am Leaving Goldman Sachs

Re:Why I Am Leaving Goldman Sachs by lix2333 on Wednesday March 14, 2012 @10:34AM (#3703328)

What kind of work will you be doing? I'm in a similar situation (M&A side though), and I'm not sure what kind of value I could bring to a tech firm without the coding skills that are needed in a early stage startup.

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Re:Why I Am Leaving Goldman Sachs by JumpCrisscross on Wednesday March 14, 2012 @04:34PM (#3705214)

Simplest answer: a tech deal team - Google, for example, has one internally.

Abstracted a little, capital markets start-ups. You could add value by hybridising Silicon Valley and New York.

Go any further, e.g. to a Pinterest, and I don't know. Maybe there is a business development role? I'd guess you'd be throwing away a lot of your existing value at that point.

Call people. Most are very willing to help.

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Re:Why I Am Leaving Goldman Sachs by pyoung on Wednesday March 14, 2012 @01:50PM (#3704364)

Big tech companies are buying up startups left and right. I am guessing they have some ex-M&A guys on staff (Note: The OP said that he was moving to tech, not necessarily a startup)

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Re:Why I Am Leaving Goldman Sachs by RobPfeifer on Wednesday March 14, 2012 @07:46PM (#3706022)

Forecasting, pricing and marketing analytics roles are all good transitions. Lots of excel still necessary - all you really need to learn is some SQL and maybe R/SAS.

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