Just finished first month in a new senior analyst VC role. Came from consulting with 2 YOE. Feeling incredibly overwhelmed and wondering how long it has taken other folks to get fully up to speed? Any advice or tips? Fund is relatively small/young and there aren’t a lot of training opps, plus it feels like everyone else on the team has it all figured out (so asking questions can be intimidating).

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I don’t have advice but I do have empathy. Just started at a large PE fund and totally swamped. Staffed on 3 live deals, basically had no training (which was a shock coming from consulting), had no idea how complicated it was to structure a transaction. Trial by fire i guess :-) keep your head up!!

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This really resonates, thanks for sharing. Trying to stay positive!

Congrats where at?

Given size of fund I don’t feel comfortable sharing publicly but feel free to DM!

Going through the same thing in PE, 4 months in and still not where I want to be

But that may be partially WFH. People forget they need to explain things

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