How difficult is it to move from PE Ops to investing?

Post-MBA SA considering an opportunity

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Difficult as those are different roles. Unless it’s a super small firm where you are going across the entire lifecycle, funds are usually pretty specialised

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Difficult to do so even while transitioning to different firm/s. Once an ops person, always an ops person. You can’t spin around your story, PE folks know when someone’s BSing about having investment experience while working in ops and when it’s genuine investment exp.

On the flipside, PE ops folks get paid well too, and if you make Partner, you’ll get a similar carry with a much better WLB.

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You mean from PE Ops in firm X to PE Investing in firm Y? Depends on how you spin the story but you would need to have your LBO modelling down cold. Likely easier within existing firm.

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