The only thing worse than sitting next to a consulting couple trying to impress each other is sitting next to a start up couple completely making shit up to impress each other... painful.

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And now..."it's not like at McKinsey where I had no life and could care less about them, but I have thought about going to another fund"

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I feel you but I also sense some jealousy

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I have been on both sides. I am also an LP in the fund one of them is talking about like she is best friends with the partners at... "I don't suffer fools lightly" she says as she talks about a GP at a NY fund while sitting in downtown Manhattan...

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Closing line as I paid my check... "I am just so beyond small talk.."

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It was so over the top, my wife and I laughed all the way back to the hotel. My wife told me you laughed more at that than the show we just went to see. Another line, "There really is no room for self improvement, when you have already done all you need to do". She could not have been more than 30.

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Guy "Silicon Valley really is where it's at"
Woman "No, not really. We are the leading firm in AI and yah know we have a couple of moonshots"
Guy "You're right. Silicon Valley is really not that great."

Then she told him not to hang his glasses on his shirt and that she had told him that before when they were in college and he really should listen to her.

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ACN 1. Thats was I thought as I looked down at my scratched Warby Parkers and sighed with relief as I realized I did not have them and my sunglasses hanging in my shirt at the same time...and slowly removed them and sat them on the table before my wife noticed and realized I was a complete dork and divorced me on the spot.

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My wife is more entertained by them that she has been by Survivor Gen X versus Millennials...

Now ... she is discussing the "competence" of her parents versus her own "competence"

Hahahaha love it, so many humble brags

Yeah I've heard these convos eating dinner in Manhattan, it's hilarious. I met a guy this weekend that does marketing analytics at a bank and kept calling himself a banker...chill bro, u do marketing, it just happens to be at a bank...a commercial bank at that haha

My wife said I should have looked over and said "wait are you guys doing a reality TV show, because this can't be real"

Hahahah seriously

What's wrong with putting your glasses on your shirt??

Hahaha nice

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