Your biggest enemy in your late teens/early 20s is chasing social status At 21, I got into a Master’s in Corporate Finance. At the time, the absolute dream was getting a summer internship in investment banking in London. I had no fucking clue what investment banking actually was. I just felt like I needed it to prove my value to my classmates. One interview at some M&A boutique in Paris was enough to make me give up on investment banking forever. I walked in and saw two pale dudes asking me dogshit accounting questions with dead eyes. The interview barely lasted. I completely failed it. Then I looked at the compensation packages people were fighting for after graduation. It felt like pure slavery to me. That’s when I decided to go full time into crypto instead. During my gap year and final year of Master’s, I locked the fuck in. Did the bare minimum to get my degree and nothing more. Most people in my master thought I was a fucking loser. A few years later, some of the same classmates chasing investment banking came back asking me for angel checks for their new startups.
