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What do you do now, if you don't mind me asking?

by brosephius 15y ago

JumpCrisscross 15y ago
HackerNews got me - moving to a tech firm
- lix2333 15y ago
  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.
  - pyoung 15y ago
    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)
  - JumpCrisscross 15y ago
    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.
  - RobPfeifer 15y ago
    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.
- velshin 15y ago
  Sign of the tech bubble? Financiers jumping to tech companies? The chemists and high school teachers turned ninja hax0r can't be far off. Someone please warn me so I can short XLK.
  - swalsh 15y ago
    To me, that's just reallocating resources. Any efficient system of capitalism will see that happening. However IPO's with unreasonable valuations, and investments greater than what's needed is a pretty good sign of bubble. So i'll let linkedin, and facebook make me scared of a bubble. Not to mention the startup Color.
  - bicknergseng 15y ago
    It's the bursting of the financial sector bubble actually: http://pages.stern.nyu.edu/~tphilipp/papers/finsize.pdf http://pages.stern.nyu.edu/~tphilipp/papers/finsize.pdf.
  - beachgeek 15y ago
    Back in 1999, my brother met a plumber who had moved here from the UK and taken a 2 week class in Java to join the fun. That's when I knew we were in a bubble.
  - mkjones 15y ago
    I hope we don't lose high school teachers to tech companies. The world needs them much more as teachers.
  - PakG1 15y ago
    I believe Joshua Schachter started as a quant at Morgan Stanley.
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What do you do now, if you don't mind me asking?

JumpCrisscross 15y ago

HackerNews got me - moving to a tech firm

lix2333 15y ago
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.
- pyoung 15y ago
  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)
- JumpCrisscross 15y ago
  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.
- RobPfeifer 15y ago
  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.
velshin 15y ago
Sign of the tech bubble? Financiers jumping to tech companies? The chemists and high school teachers turned ninja hax0r can't be far off. Someone please warn me so I can short XLK.
- swalsh 15y ago
  To me, that's just reallocating resources. Any efficient system of capitalism will see that happening. However IPO's with unreasonable valuations, and investments greater than what's needed is a pretty good sign of bubble. So i'll let linkedin, and facebook make me scared of a bubble. Not to mention the startup Color.
- bicknergseng 15y ago
  It's the bursting of the financial sector bubble actually: http://pages.stern.nyu.edu/~tphilipp/papers/finsize.pdf http://pages.stern.nyu.edu/~tphilipp/papers/finsize.pdf.
- beachgeek 15y ago
  Back in 1999, my brother met a plumber who had moved here from the UK and taken a 2 week class in Java to join the fun. That's when I knew we were in a bubble.
- mkjones 15y ago
  I hope we don't lose high school teachers to tech companies. The world needs them much more as teachers.
- PakG1 15y ago
  I believe Joshua Schachter started as a quant at Morgan Stanley.

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