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people in tech love to shit on bankers but the capacity to take pain is an key element of greatness, and doing banking at the top 2-3 firms pretty good filter for that (at least 10-15 years ago) a lot of engineers (esp fang types, not Tesla/startup types) haven’t experienced crunch. I’m not glorifying crunch or banking hours, but it is a valuable capability but — you don’t learn anything spreading comps the 1,000th time. that’s just work. Hopefully replaced by AI 🔜 my friend and gs-era boss @krisfredrickson (social ghost) is one of the best team-builders I know, and he puts folks (for growth vc) through a stressful exercise which is essentially “come up with an investing pov on this company in 3 hours.” bankers are generally unperturbed