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Michael Podolny

Jul 28, 2026

10:26
Mm-hmm.
10:26
No.
10:26
This one was pretty not very wordy, which was good, and it was clearly actionable.
10:33
That's always something I look for in a plan, like could you put...
10:36
So I said, "Hmm.
10:37
Okay.
10:38
Well, maybe I'll talk to this person." So we talk, and I get to meet her just before I was leaving Ghana to come back home, and I'm like blown away, 'cause this girl looks like she's 18.
14:39
Right.
BlessedHOST
18:59
What drew you into investment banking? I mean, not everyone wakes up and they'll be like, you know what, I'm going to make sure that I'm going to go into investment banking because people find it boring, you know, all these checking accounts, booking
19:12
checks.
19:13
Well, investment banking is a broad term.
19:17
It covers a lot of different things, all right? It's not wealth management, okay? So it's not like, you know, managing somebody's money and putting it into accounts.
19:27
Investment banking is really...
19:29
The whole... profession of how do we get capital money into business operations.
19:39
And you can look at that on a very tiny scale.

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BlessedHOST
42:06
But what does a business who actually doesn't only make profit, but is human-centered, what does it look like in real life? Yeah.
AbrahamHOST
5:46
Mm-hmm.
5:46
I can do a lot of things.
5:47
I travel.
5:48
But it, like I said, it wasn't just because of me.
5:51
It was because, you know, I inherited some money.
5:54
Somebody bailed me out when I was doing bad.
5:56
I was given intro-- Right? I had lots of help.
speaker_2UNKNOWN
10:51
Yeah.

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