The Mergers Podcast
The official podcast of The Mergers! Listen to learn from those currently rising up the ranks in High Finance and from those who have already built their empire! Frequent guest episodes including those who run their own Private Equity, Family Office or Venture Capital Firms! We cover:
- Industry Insights into: Investment Banking, Private Equity, Venture Capital
- Bulge Brackets to Niche: Goldman Sachs & Blackrock to Sports & Media Private Equity.
- Career Advice for how to get ahead.
Expect a healthy mix of anecdotes, advice and laughs from those at the top of their game!
Podcasting since 2024 • 25 episodes
The Mergers Podcast
Latest Episodes
Investment Banking for startups [Jason Kirby, Founder, Thunder.VC]
What happens when a founder exits multiple startups and then builds a start-up focused Investment Banking platform from scratch?In this episode, Rory and Ken sit down with Jason Kirby — founder of Thunder VC, ex-founder of ...
•
51:35
My 2 Cents: Leaving Banking to found an AI Company [Rob Cossins, Scribe.AI]
Rob Cossins (Co-founder & CEO, Scribe) on the real founder journey: why entrepreneurship is not for everyone, the seven-year build-up from Barclays to AI/data, and how to decide when to raise (and when not to). We get...
•
38:40
Tech, Banking & Surviving 2008 [Thomas Hughes, Workera]
Tom Hughes’ career has been anything but normal. He started out as a Dublin kid tracking stock prices on BBC Ceefax, went into equity research before the ’08 crash, and then got 'super-fired' like thousands of others.From there ...
•
43:31
Operator, Founder, Investor - ft. Hanna Lewis - ep. 22
In this episode of The Mergers, we sit down with Hanna Lewis, investor at Blue Wire Capital and former operator turned founder with unrivaled experience across all aspects of Entrepreneurship and VC.From making burritos in San Diego to ...
•
1:10:19
Cyber Security, The SAS & Kidnapping - ft. Jonathan Palmer - ep. 21
In this episode of The Mergers, Rory and Ken sit down with Jonathan Palmer (JP) — a cybersecurity pioneer who’s worked with elite intelligence units, Fortune 500 firms, and accidentally acquired the patent for secure internet tr...
•
47:34