I need to impress post wall senior member.
>>62763415suck his pee pee
Pitch KODK and when he asks you what kinda crack you're smoking just say "read the quarterlies" and stare at him.
Join a college sports team. Talk about sports and how you enjoyed your time at the same frat as your interviewer and how much you enjoy rich people hobbies and spending time with rich people, who you are friends with many of.In the unlikely event you are interviewing with someone whose job is actual investing and not selling financial products to other rich people, you want to try to pitch something that is similar to what the person you are interviewing with already invests in, and try to get information that is not generally publicly available - do channel checks, talk to experts, talk to IR people at the company, etc. Your DCF or whatever goes in the appendix to prove you can but no one really cares except to check the box that you have basic numeracy; a calculator is not an edge.
>>62763490That's assuming the unclear OP is about interviewing for a finance job. if you're trying to impress a fellow investment board poster, 10 page KODK pitch, full DCF model front and center, AI generated graphs and pictures, consider looking at some SoftBank pitch decks for prompt ideas. Winged unicorns rising like phoenixes from the ash kinda shit.Remember value is in the goose (this last one is unironic, Masa was right with that one and everyone made fun of it while missing the point).
>>62763490Yes, joining a college sports team can signal discipline, and having something in common with an interviewer can make conversation easier. But “talk about sports, your frat, rich-people hobbies, and your rich friends” is an absurdly narrow caricature of relationship-building. If your strongest evidence of fit is proximity to wealth, you are not demonstrating judgment—you are demonstrating access.The investing advice is even more backwards. If the interviewer actually invests, blindly pitching whatever resembles their existing portfolio is less evidence of independent thought than an attempt to reverse-engineer their preferences. And “get information that is not generally publicly available” is not some magical diligence hack. There is an enormous difference between legitimate primary research—channel checks, expert calls, customers, suppliers, IR—and seeking material nonpublic information. The former demonstrates curiosity; the latter can demonstrate that you do not understand the rules.Most importantly, fundamental investing is not a choice between “secret information” and “a DCF.” The edge is **asking better questions, developing differentiated views from public and properly sourced information, understanding what the market misunderstands, and being right for the right reasons**. A DCF is not impressive by itself, but neither is calling ten people and repeating what they told you. The model is useful precisely because it forces you to translate assumptions into an explicit thesis and identify what would falsify it.The best candidate therefore does neither performative elitism nor spreadsheet theater. They show judgment, intellectual independence, ethical primary research, genuine curiosity, and the ability to turn evidence into an investment decision. That is a considerably better signal than knowing the interviewer’s golf handicap. :::
