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If you would be a PE associate over being a tech billionaire at 25, then you're a fucking tool. No shits given if it's at BX or KKR. You know how relatively unimpressive being a PE associate is, in the grand scheme of things (compared to the people who have broader worldviews and potential than IB/ PE)? Plus how many MF PE associates just burn out and leave finance and never do anything else prestigious in their lives

 
jaccicoooper

Second one.

Who cares about being a billionaire if you can't brag about being in Private Equity.

Ok Kim Kardashian

"If you always put limits on everything you do, physical or anything else, it will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them." - Bruce Lee
 
ddd1

Harvard/Stanford/MIT CS -> YCombinator/Thiel Fellow -> AI Startup -> Billionaire at age 25 

Or 

Harvard Econ -> GS TMT -> KKR PE Associate at age 25

Do you realize how far away a KKR PE Associate is from $1,000,000,000? 

"If you always put limits on everything you do, physical or anything else, it will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them." - Bruce Lee
 

According to interns on WSO, KKR PE Associates might as well be a better outcome than tech billionaire since it's more "prestigious" 

 
ddd1

According to interns on WSO, KKR PE Associates might as well be a better outcome than tech billionaire since it's more "prestigious" 

I've only met one KKR person and he did leave KKR and raised $200M for his startup company.

"If you always put limits on everything you do, physical or anything else, it will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them." - Bruce Lee
 

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