My name is Andrew Gutmann. I am the author of “How to Be an Investment Banker: Recruiting, Interviewing, and Landing the Job“
I have taught finance and investment banking classes for a number of institutions, including at the Institute for Finance, the firm that I founded. As a hobby, I also created the website QuantEquityInvesting on the now trendy topic of quantitative factor investing.
I am also a self taught web developer and have participated in a number of entrepreneurial ventures, most recently as the founder and developer of igokids, a New York City based tech startup focused on becoming the world’s first search engine for families.
I am an ex-investment banker having worked at both large and boutique investment banks. I started my banking career focused mainly on restructuring transactions (advising distressed/bankrupt companies) and then moved into Mergers and Acquisitions. I have helped execute U.S. and cross-border transactions in a variety of industries.
I began my career as a Research Assistant at the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve in Washington, DC.
I live in New York City with my wife and daughter. I can be emailed at andrew [at] IBankingFAQ [dot] com.
Hi Andrew!
I read your article on “Why is the World So Messed Up?” and want to applaud you on your insight and great thoughts. So impressive! Such truth.
Hi Andrew, really great article abiut QE and printing money though I still don’tvquitevunderstand what a ‘bond’ actully is or is represented by. Maybe it’s a sheet of paper with beaitiful copperplate writing and a large number. If I find out I’ll let you know.
Andrew, I applaud you, Sir. You could have burned the place down with oily rags but you burned it down with a pen instead. Good. On. You.
Mr. Gutmann,
I can’t express my gratitude enough. The letter you recently sent and shared may well serve as the tipping point in stopping the insanity.
Thank you!!
Dear Mr. Gutmann Never have I ever read a letter that so vividly and straightforwardly expresses and represents my thoughts, viewpoint and most of all, what my family’s values are all about. Thank you from the bottom of my heart. You are truly a Great American! Richard Sykes
Congrats on speaking freely, bravely and truthfully.
Andrew Gutmann is Addressing exactly what is going so so so wrong in America thank you fine sir
Your shot is the loudest fired thus far in this war. I have a seven-year-old son currently in China, and I want his middle school and high school experience in America to be great. This kind of indoctrination that you experienced cannot be allowed to thrive in a nation as ours. I am also in the education business with interested investors. I will be coming to the US next week. Please let me know if you have time.
I read “Inside the Woke Indoctrination Machine” and I appreciate your passion around education and steps that take things too far. You provide some persuasive support, although any reasonable reader would know your support is slanted to justify your exaggerated cause for concern. Despite the value of your “research” (however biased), I worry about how intellectually fragile you think whites are and how your privilege causes you to confuse education with shaming. Do you really think whites (or I suppose you would say all Americans) need to be protected from thinking about racism and our racist past differently, and if so, to what degree? You really think your privileged view of what has happened in an overwhelming minority of American schools (mostly private schools) deserves the kind of indoctrination by omission you are now implicitly endorsing? No doubt that some of the practices you identify are concerning and should stop, but it is also quite sad that someone as purportedly smart as you (with your self-ascribed-victim-seeking following) is more worried about white kids’ feelings than fixing the effects of racism. Your concern about indoctrination is hypocritical and one-directional. You have used your unique experience as a platform to promote and justify ignorance and conveniently ignored the need for more constructive discussion around the reality and prevalence (i.e., non-prevalence) of critical race theory and the dangerous and unwarranted effects of potential legislation and other responses to it. Where is your recognition of the ongoing threat of white supremacy and how you perpetuate it in the backlash you foment? You have the ability and resources to facilitate more constructive dialogue around how to educate and raise necessary awareness, but the fact that you have used that power in such a biased manner is disappointing and dangerous. Much worse than being too “woke” is refusing to be woke at all.