The Next Big Thing

Investment banking sounds like stodgy work. Not so. Just read what Monkey Business has to say about the thrills of writing pitch books:

“[The Strategic Considerations] section is a lot like a game of Boggle. The associate [investment banker] puts a bunch of sexy-sounding financial words into a shaker (“capital,” “synergy,” “efficiency,” value” …), then shakes the words up and peppers them randomly through a bunch of sentences that contain other random words. None of it makes any sense, but if it begins to sound enough like it’s out of a business school textbook, then the potential client will sometimes buy off on it and retain the investment bank to do a deal.”

Maybe I could offer this service directly to my clients. You know, cut out the whole investment banking middleman. It might be the next big thing.