But an athlete does not have to get an MBA to break into finance, said Zoia of Glocap. Athletes may appeal to banks and private equity firms, but they are hired more so for business development roles than for technical ones, said Zoia. “They’re not doing detailed financial models and really advising the nitty gritty of the deal structure,” said Zoia. [FINS]
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Breaking: Ex-Athletes Turned Financiers Don’t Have To Worry About Things Like Decimal Points
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- Use the Bloomberg command
NH BLG_DEALBREAKER <GO>
to access Dealbreaker
“When you’re playing, you never think about waking up in the morning and saying to yourself ‘what am I going do today?’” said Mark Madsen, 35, who spent nine years playing the Los Angeles Lakers and Minnesota Timberwolves and is now in his first year at the Stanford Graduate School of Business.”Now, when I wake up, I roll over, bang another chick who’s not my wife, and realize my life isn’t all that different from before.”
Nitty Gritty > MBA > glow sticks > crap > Glocap
…not sure where CFA fits in.
Now when I wake up I roll over and wait for the pounding.
– Any Wall Street executive sentenced according to MT’s guidelines.
Fun Fact: Nails is still such an incredible athlete, he can fuck his own face while making himself dinner.
If I hear one more athlete talking about the Series 7/63 like its some kinda mental Mount Everest….anyway I’m just glad to hear they aren’t going back to school for an engineering degree in order to design bridges and airplanes.
Well, when I joined this quant trading team I was introduced to this huge guy with stone face. My boss said, look kiddo you do the model and if you fucking loose any money this dude here will break your fucking legs and will go medieval on your ass. Otherwise I did not have any concerns.
He still makes more money than UBS
Investment Bank: We’d like to introduce you to the managing director who will be leading this deal. He’s a former professional athlete who had to quit sports after he barely recovered from a series of concussions.
Client: Sounds good to us!
Glocrap
Harder to compute PE or Slugging Percentage?
fuckin right
Mark is a cool dude – sad he comes off a s massive douche int his article. He’s a Morman so he’s probably banging a bunch of bitches that are indeed his wife.
snarky comments abound.
Bess… truly, madly, ….deeply.
3rd string Center Fielder for The Rockford Peaches > MBA > Dykstra’s got clothes like a dickhead > Glocap
- “All the way” Mae
not to mention the shrunken testes. Ping would approve.
Anyone else think “Zoia of Glocap” sounds like a character from Lord of the Rings or some other dungeons-and-dragons-y nonsense?
it moved.
-IT guy
you’re an idiot
I like your suggestion of following only a few men and women at first. With every social media platform, it’s good to start off slowly and imitate the persons who are successful.