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Meta’s CFO spoke about what it was like to start with Morgan Stanley when she was 19 after graduating at the university.
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Susan Li told the co -founder of Stripe John Collison in a podcast interview that her age was in the spotlight on her first day.
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She also spoke about what she learned by working with former Morgan Stanley Tech Banker Michael Grimes.
Her first day on the trade floor of Morgan Stanley, Susan Li was ‘death board’.
Li, who is now Meta CFO, started at the bank about two decades ago when she was only 19, after his graduation Van Stanford earlier than most of her colleagues.
“When I appeared at Morgan Stanley for my first day, I was at the trade floor in the Big Broadway head office at 1585, and the equivalent of an HRBP actually received the attention of everyone on the trade floor,” said Li Stripe -employee John Collison on his Podcast -Cheeky Pint. “And so she wanted everyone to put on the floor and look at me and know that nobody would serve me alcohol at a collection of company.”
It was about par for the course for the industry, she added.
“So it was exactly the way you think about starting your career on Wall Street, by being terrified,” she said.
The Meta CFO spoke about some potential advantages and disadvantages of the education system so quickly.
“Well, some can say, because I started with kindergarten when I was four and I graduated from the university when I was 19, that 15 years of formal education is-I am miserable, so I really just have to make up that rough start,” said Li.
She was able to sprint through her education, she added, partly because the institutions she attended noticed when students needed various challenges to keep them involved.
“I was in a school system that identified when children were bored at school and then just offered you opportunities to keep going, and my parents always took them,” she said.
Li first came to Meta in 2008 and eventually came to the rank of CFO at the age of 36, making her one of the youngest most important financial officers in an industry where the average age of people in similar positions is 53.
When Li finally entered the professional circuit as a banker, she said she collaborated with Michael Grimes, the former head of Global Technology Investment Banking at Morgan Stanley. Grimes is currently a senior official at the US Department of Trade.
Li said that she remembered ‘energetic nature and curiosity of Grimes, as well as his ability to outwork.
