Because we’re of the belief that financial journalism can never have enough pretty girls, we’re happy to bring you this video of an ambitious young girl called Brenna Hartwidth. She describes herself as a “financial service professional” and apparently wants to be the next Maria Bartiromo.
Video after the jump.
Way too stuffy.
I didn’t catch it the first time around…
DePaul isn’t going to cut it on Wall Street, sweetheart.
What is DePaul? And WTF is with the 3/4 angle she is talking with? Not as charismatic as she says she is, and the name “Brenna Hardwith” just doesn’t cut it. You need something like Gasparino, or Becky Quick, to make me watch.
Oh please DePaul will totally cut it on the street. Everyone act’s like they are ivy league class, when the reality is that streeties are just over educated gasparino’s.
hell, before buffet went to columbia he got his undergrad degree @ the university of nebraska.
She has charisma? It’s amazing how one’s perception of oneself is entirely incongruent with reality. And, what’s with looking at the camera at a side angle?? It renders whatever she’s saying to seem lack cogency. Keep looking at yourself in the mirror Brenna, cause NY will be a lonely, lonely place for you.
I love how she threw in the “xie xie” to show she knows some Mandarin
I’d stick my pork roll into her mushi mushi
hard width
I’d hit it too
http://www.youtube.com/user/missbrenna1
Haha. We once didn’t hire a candidate because she said in her interview she was interested in taking some classes at DePaul.
Erin whats-her-face, whom thought was made cute (and healthy looking, as the camera added a few pounds to her gaunt frame) was a real disappointment.
but I don’t watch tv anyway…
@9:47 as I am fond of saying, Wall Street was built by high-school dropouts, and destroyed by Ivy-League MBA’s their MIT sycophants.
She’s taking that angle because she doesn’t want you to see the half-absorbed fetal twin sticking out of the other side of her face that gives her all the answers to those pesky credit spread questions on her midterms.
DePaul is a good school. Anyone that snobby about undergrad (!) is really out of touch, and probably peaked at 18.
The top 1% from just about anywhere, including those that don’t go to undergrad at all, have potential on the Street. Maybe it dings you a little in the service professions (I know everyone is obsessed with investment banking for some reason, and I know there are too many lawyers), but in terms of actually allocating capital give me the best from DePaul over your average entitled early-blooming Ivy Leaguer any day.
@10:28 you go, guest.
and let’s not forget, it wasn’t PsD’s that sunk Bear. PhD’s, maybe…
Notice the CFA books in the back.
Um Depaul=Chicago where the real action is. You guys are yesterday.
lol if you make the right connection it doesn’t matter where you go to college.
DePaul is at least as good as Ball State and Old Dominion, also top notch academic programs. GO BLUE DEMONS!!!!!!!
That youtube page is ridiculous.
City: Planet Earth
Occupation: Financial warrior/slayer
Music: ROCK!!!
And the background is covered with Benjamins
there is also a devry in chicago. where the real action is.
Well, she showed us her marketing talent.
Until someone from DeVry causes a write down of $8 billion, don’t knock DeVry. ITT Tech is OK, just not DeVry.
Looked at a Merc seat recently? Bunch of Depaul grads there. About to buy NMX.
Hahaha nice. But it is telling that such people don;t even make it to positions where they have the potential to lose that much.
Occasionally a lost power sander but mostly just screwdrivers and hammers.
what the fuck is this shit?
Fuck her; she’s a gook. Looks and sounds like any squeaky-voiced character on one of those action-packed, blood-and-guts annimated Jap series on TV(SciFi Channel) late at night.
WTF does that dipshit know other than that she wants to be a star? And db gave her some exposure. How cute.
she reminds me of trisha takinawa
As if Alexsey Vayner wasn’t warning enough, the only sure-fire way to avoid getting a job on wall street is to make a video “proving” how much you deserve one.
Fukin n00bz
i bet this was a team project at the b-school – create your own page with $$ bills background and make a video to post on youtube.
Me thinks that Blarney is trying to get this youngin’ on lockdown before Friday. You know, to make the weekend go by a bit faster.
What a dirty old man.
a) she looks like a cross between Scully-era Gillian Andersen and Angelina Jolie, if you scrubbed all the hotness off of them.
b) if she wants to be the next Maria Bartiromo, she better put down the CFA materials and start preparing for the Oral Exam.
her entire demeanor was way too stiff. her head looked like it was in a neck brace.
potential though.
-chad
Captain Kirk called me a “gook” only one time. After I finished with him, Bones said it took a month before Jim could produce a regular “Captain’s Log” without any blood.
Hikaru Sulu, Starship Enterprise
@10:49 you nailed it. GLOBEX IS the market. NY just woke up.
Sad.
“We once didn’t hire a candidate because she said in her interview she was interested in taking some classes at DePaul.”
… and the fact that you wear “fucking clown shoes” (hat tip to Holden McNeil).
@ 11:02
“b) if she wants to be the next Maria Bartiromo, she better put down the CFA materials and start preparing for the Oral Exam.”
nice.
@11:02 zzzziiiiiiinggggg!!!!!!!!!
@11:09 it was a top hedge fund in chicago. i’ll bet you can guess which one.
Is that the one that’s long a bunch of E-Trade??
A trillion dollars in write downs from grads of top business schools with “good connections”. It boggles the mind.
Yep, and at the end of the day, the same guys will still be in charge. Sorry Sooners your day has not yet come.
“capital markets and Chinese are my passion” – wonderful! If it’s Chinese dudes that are her passion she can probably corner the market and maybe avoid the whole noxious getting a job thing.
I once had an applicant tell me that “real estate is my passion”. In a heroic effort I did not laugh in her face; much less tell her that since screwing bitchy JAP chicks is my passion we are a good match.
Not a fan of either candidate…however, the hysterics and white fear of you fucking retards is becoming hard to stomach. Bill Ayers will not gather the weathermen for another shot at the “Revolución.” Whites will not be thrown into sweatshops, forced to work slave wages for “retribution.” Rev. Wright will not be sitting on the judiciary committee, observing policy.
This is why our government doesn’t trust citizens to decide on leadership. The electoral college, at least, has the decency to take a somewhat “objective” look at what each candidate is bringing to the table (albeit, while lining their pockets). Rush Limbaugh is an entertainer, not a fucking oracle.
I’m officially the retard.
@11.18…you’re telling me Kenny Griffin looks down on people who weren’t doing convertible bond arbitrage in their dorm rooms?
I went to DePaul, and I work at a hedge fund. I thought this industry only cared about one thing… what was that one thing again? If I remember correctly, Nelson Peltz didn’t graduate from college. Sandy Weill almost didn’t either.
DePaul has the largest Computer Science department in the world. Thats right, the WORLD. If it wasnt for us, none of you could do your jobs. We control the entire infrastructure, the algos, routing and knowledge you need to do your job. I worked with the Ivy Leaguers you all speak of…they spend their lives kissing the asses of those of us who worked our way to the top and still have jobs because we know how to get things done instead of having them done for us. Ivy League BITCHES!
how many big PE guys are from depaul
a) where is thadius? I thought he was the official talent scout.
b) notice she did not go with the erin callan provocative camera angle (is she listening to girl/blndebnker or does she have something to hide?)
discuss…
@11:54,
I need a new mouse pad, could you bring me one please?
I kid.
Lowly Assistant, wtf?
who gives a flying fuck about DePaul.
the job market is this bad? girls whoring themself on youtube? shameless self promotion? sad day.
A) $200k puts you in the top 5%. If being in the top 5% in the richest country in the world isn’t rich by your definition, then your definition is stupid.
B) The capital gains tax is going up anyway, according to the law that was passed by Republicans. Obama would have it go up more and sooner, but it’s not as though this 15% nonsense is here to stay in any event.
C) Bartiromo is known to be a right wing flack, as is customary for CNBC personalities. I also don’t think my opinion of her as a moron is motivated by sexism.
I know a partner at GTCR (Big PE Firm) Who went to UIC, which is even shittier than DePaul. Then he went to HBS and worked for McKinsey. I’m not sure about the douche who works in IT, but every school has morons and geniuses. I have a friend who graduated from harvard and now tends a bar. Anyway, Tap or Pass? I go with Tap.
Oops. Put that comment in the wrong Bartiromo post. She’s getting a lot of coverage today.
Warren Buffett’s undergraduate school is the University of Nebraska. Ace Greenberg graduated from the University of Missouri. Steve Jobs dropped out after one semester at Reed College. Dick Grasso dropped out after two years at Pace University. Jamie Dimon’s undergraduate school is Tufts.
If you went undergraduate to an Ivy League school, good for you! But don’t knock those that didn’t. And you’d be foolish to make assumptions about intelligence and drive based on undergraduate school.
Jeff Skilling worked for McKinsey.
@12:09–attention to detail. You’re next.
yahh boyeee…
Read it and weep… DePaul is #6 in part time MBA programs. And for those of you who don’t “approve” of part time programs and took a full time program then either A) you have way too much time on your hands or B) daddy paid for it
http://grad-schools.usnews.rankingsandreviews.com/grad/mba/pr_mbaprg
http://www.depaul.edu/student_life/student_profiles/hardmanb.asp
Her student spotlight at DePaul…
LOL, part time, ranked one spot above southern methodist eh?
her left eye is higher than her right eye. which might explain the 3/4 approach in her video.
@ 12:26
Thats fantastic, but nowhere in her profile does she mention that she likes to “get wasted”, “smoke (anything”, or do anything even remotely social. This girl is fantastically pathological, is what I’m saying.
@12:14 Even a broken clock is right twice a day. Not saying youshouldn’t hire the one random exceptional genius you ecounter who just also happens to be a DePaul grad, but really? You will just assume an average Reed College dropout is going to be as succesful as an HBS grad?
@12:26… You’ve opened the gates…
To be fair, now that you guys have kicked it around a bit, the whole story is we didn’t hire her because we didnt want someone wasting time taking classes anyway instead of crunching numbers in the office, but it certainly was there, she could have said Chicago instead of DePaul.
She is a Sexaul Harassment suit waiting to happen…HR’s worst nightmare, an uppidy woman!
@12:34
No, I’m assuming you should take academic achievements for what they’re worth, but not bet the farm on them. If someone has a 4.0 out of a good school, that’s a good thing. But that doesn’t mean all that much in the end. Nor is it true that not having a good GPA out of a good school means you’re dumb and not ambitious enough for success.
And a lot of HBS grads don’t come from great undergrad programs.
I’m not 12:14, but I’d assume you should take academic achievements for what they’re worth, but not bet the farm on them. If someone has a 4.0 out of a good school, that’s a good thing. But that doesn’t mean all that much in the end. Nor is it true that not having a good GPA out of a good school means you’re dumb and not ambitious enough for success.
And a lot of HBS grads don’t come from great undergrad programs.
she’s doable. a little stiff, but nothing a roll in the hay with me couldn’t fix.
Then again, she has a passion for Chinese guys, so it probably won’t take much.
I kn ow a shit-for-brains energy trader who brags about his MBA from SMU. He spits snuff into a cup on his desk. Some of you probably know him.
Go Blue!
She looks a lot like that porn star, Sasha Grey.
http://cache.kotaku.com/assets/resources/2008/04/sasha_grey.jpg
you think so? i don’t see it.
@12:15 You don’t spit snuff, so i think that must be chewing tobacco. And its a stimulant, he problem is just trying to stay on the ball… maybe suggest to him that he should start taking the A-Train in to work instead.
@ whoever made the comment about buffet… he went to wharton and then transfered back to nebraska, i don’t know if he had a break down or just got sick of St. A’s douchebags, but he’d already been ivy leauge vetted, then he went columbia….
@everyone George W. Bush went to Yale and HBS…. ‘nough said.
for some reason i find myself hating her. also funny how she only reads Ayn Rand books.
- cincinnatus c
i might be showing my religion here, but part of why depaul sux is that it’s so f*cking expensive. compare it to say miami of ohio, which everyone knows is a good value. i took my gmat in chicago and wanted to go to UC or NU, but wouldn’t even consider DePaul. that’s the problem w/grad schools in chicago…after UC/NU, the drop in quality, esp per $ spent, is HUGE.
Her Chinese sucks, Beijing accent – she said “I’m able to speak a little bit of Chinese” and then threw in a “thanks” at the end – nice work, my dog can do better
hail to the victors!
sasha grey should become a finance slayer. that i would watch. easy transition, and she would definitely pass the maria oral test with flying colors.
She then moved to Los Angeles and started her career in 2006 just after turning 18. Her first scene was an orgy with Rocco Siffredi and others for the movie The Fashionistas 2 by John Stagliano. During this scene, she shocked her fellow performer by requesting that he punch her in the stomach, which he declined.
wow.
she’s a cross between lara flynn boyle and monica lewinsky = forgettable. moving on…
Too long, didn’t read.
@12:25
Always check your sources. Click through the links and you can see that the page diplsayed isnt “accurate”- rankings for ‘part-time’ MBA programs are different once you click on the indiv. school. Also note that the average starting salary for grads from Depaul and contrast with other similarily (and errenously) ranked schools
@ 4:03 errenously ranked… really? Did you learn that at DouchePaul ?
wtf is DePaul?
I went to a community college in KY, then on to UK, where I barely graduated with a marketing degree. After that I moved to NYC, applied for a broker job @ Morgan Stanley and was hired. I bullshitted people all day long and opened a ton of accounts, dumped them into Mary Meeker picks, and blew the clients to smithereens, sometimes making 150K a month. I lived @ Trump Palace, had a home in the East Hampton, drove an Aston Martin and lived like a king. Anything is possible on Wall Street if you can tell a lie. Anything!!! It’s your ability to fudge the facts, not your knowledge of them.
@4:08
Yea, i dont spell check- i leave that up to the analysts.
good job
@ JimBob
Mary Meeker, lol!
My greatest regret is that I did not get the opportunity to work at Bear before they imploded. I could have made Cayne proud of me, but unfortunately they told me I had compliance issues that would prevent them from hiring me!!
When I have free time, I like to… Well, time isn’t free, but when I have “extra” time, I like to study Chinese, learn something new, read books and newspapers, travel abroad, exercise and plan. Other than that, I like to spend time with my family, volunteer and attend different business and Chinese events around the city.
-quote from her page
Obviously the least fun human being ever
@ 5:01
As I said, obviously either a) the most pathological, b) delusional, c) full of sh!t, or d) all of the above
WTF – I’d hit it.
TOGFD
I hope that all you who posted your hurtful negative comments someday have children of your own, so all this bad karma will come back to you.
You can’t hurt my daughter,she will reach her goals no matter what you negative people say.
Shame on you !!
hmm what’s the delay here
@12:45
Loving the racism/sterotyping – typical of a guy with parents who did a crappy job. $’s from Chinese guys probably saved the crappy bank that you work at from going into bankruptcy. Pretty soon we’ll all be whores for the Chinese…
@ 8:10
Or Towelheads.
一路顺风 kiddo.
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“After graduation, I plan to… pursue a career in an investment banking or international finance position. I am also working towards fluency in Chinese in addition to obtaining CFA designation.”
Sounds like her English could use a little more work before she starts hammering on Chinese.
onegin/ginntonic
you should both lay in the gutter together.
http://www.danwei.org/featured_video/the_official_olympic_cheer.php
When the Chinese take over Wall Street, Dealbreaker will be shut down immediately. The Chinese government would never tolerate Bess.
When I have free time, I like to….get overserved, lie to women, spend money, occasionally read a book. Thank you, sha-sha-knee.
I love how she threw in the “xie xie” to show she knows some Mandarin
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