I recommend consulting as a first career. At Bain, I learned a lot, had fun, and worked with smart colleagues. It provided essential business skills.
Yeah. I I always recommend people thinking about consulting as a potential kinda early stage first step career. I learned so much in my time at Vayne. I also had a lot of fun. I had incredibly smart and and great colleagues.
You know, Vayne or consulting in general is a great way to, like, learn the toolkit of business. So how do you approach a problem, either strategic or kinda operational in nature? Just like blocking and tackling of doing a lot of analysis in, like, a great environment where you'll learn, from your peers. And there's also structured programs that can teach you how to do a lot of this modeling and a lot of the strategic learning about business models as an example and incentives and, working with management and, like, building a team. So a lot of kinda core building blocks or tools that, I've carried on with in my career overall.
I would say I probably learned a lot more about business and operating and kind of being part of a business during my time at Vain that I didn't in business school at all. What do you mean by can you define that a little more? I think it's very different. So at Bain, you're gonna be working in a small team. There's gonna be lots of feedback for you and kind of existing systems that help you gonna figure out, okay.
What are what what does great look like in this role? What are the thing criteria that you need to do to be doing well? This is very prescriptive skills that you need to prove and then how you're doing and the feedback that you're getting. You know, in business school and I guess in venture too, it's a lot more unstructured. And, like, people go to business school for so many reasons that it's really up to you to get the most out of what you wanna get out of business school.
So I wouldn't say that there was any structure at all around it.