curiousapplicant wrote:
Hello everyone.
I would appreciate anyone's feedback regarding a VC/PE internship. IF one, without prior financial industry experience, was able to secure an unpaid VC/PE internship prior to b-school do you believe it would increase one's chances to obtain a summer internship or job a year out? (Please suspend disbelief)
I'm interested to learn more about the industry as the challenge of valuating, growing, or rebuilding companies is very intriguing. If in an ideal world you had an option for either VC or PE to internship in, as a career switcher, which would you choose and why?
Thanks for your input as I am a curious optimist eager to learn more about both industries.
I know a guy that worked part time, summer internship and three full semesters at a midmarket PE shop. All Pro Bono, should we say.
He got a job.
I doubt doing less would work. Without the background that suits, PE is a slog. VC has more backgrounds that work. If you want to learn about valuation, rebuilding and growing firms, go into an IB - restructuring perhaps, though that is quietening down - and then maybe move later. Much easier, more probable and established.