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I have actually encountered the opposite. The guys I know who used to work at Goldman Sachs are really good. Maybe it depends on what bank they worked at?
by menloparkbum 18y ago
I have actually encountered the opposite. The guys I know who used to work at Goldman Sachs are really good. Maybe it depends on what bank they worked at?
- swombat 18y agoProbably does. I won't name the bank I was at, but it was a big one, and I worked in a number of departments there, from risk reporting to prime brokerage, and all over the place, there was a lack of the kind of singular talent that, imho, is best suited to start-ups. That said, if you want people with a high level of professionalism, banking IT is a good place to poach from. For my start-up, though, I look for genius, not professionalism.
- nostrademons 18y agoThe people I know in finance are really smart, but their skillset is very different from what you need in a startup (unless the startup happens to be finance-related). It'd be like getting a physics grad student to start a company with you: yeah, you can be sure that the guy is brilliant, but when it comes down to the details of satisfying customers and building product, he's probably not what you want.
- menloparkbum 18y agoI might live in opposite world, because the Goldman Sachs guys I know are actually very successful at their startups. So were the physics grad students! And, one of them was a physics grad student, who then worked at Goldman Sachs, then worked with me at a startup. He was amazing.