Meet Matt
Hey, I'm Matt, and I didn't take the easy road into investment banking.
I didn't go to a target school. I didn't have a pipeline of alumni at bulge
bracket banks or a family friend who could make a call. What I had was a lot of
cold emails, a lot of rejection, and a refusal to accept that the industry was
closed to people like me.
It wasn't. I broke in — and I've spent my career in investment banking ever
since. Today I'm a Director at an investment banking advisory firm and a former
IB Associate, and I've worked on M&A and strategic engagements across the deal
spectrum. I've sat on the other side of the table. I know what banks actually
look for, because evaluating it is part of my job.
Why I built Finance Friend
Here's what I learned breaking in the hard way: investment banking recruiting
isn't a test of raw intelligence. It's a game with unwritten rules — and the
people who win aren't necessarily the smartest. They're the ones who understood
the timeline, networked the right way, and prepared for the exact questions that
get asked.
Nobody teaches that in school. And most of the prep that exists is either a
faceless PDF dump or a tutor who charges a fortune. When I was recruiting, I would
have paid anything for a single resource that laid out the whole journey —
networking, behavioral, and the technicals — from someone who'd actually done it
recently and could answer my questions.
That resource didn't exist. So I built it.
What makes this different
Finance Friend is everything I know, organized the way recruiting actually
happens. Not a random pile of topics — a path. From understanding the industry,
to building a networking pipeline that gets you interviews, to mastering every
technical concept you'll be tested on.
But the biggest difference is this: you're not doing it alone. Most courses
hand you videos and disappear. I don't. You can ask me questions and get real
answers from someone currently in the industry. That's the part I needed most
when I was in your shoes, and it's the part almost nobody offers.
I'm not a faceless brand. I'm a person who was exactly where you are, figured it
out, and wants to save you the years of trial and error it took me.
If you're willing to put in the work, I'll show you the way in.
— Matt