Phyllis Lee

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LA-based private equity investor and former NYC investment banker navigating her way through Wall Street, New York City and now Los Angeles
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J. Crew to Private Equity: A Reflection

I wore a LOT of J. Crew in high school and college. I didn’t know it then, but my love for J. Crew would eventually spark my interest in private equity (PE). In March 2011, when I was a high school sophomore buried in SAT prep, J. Crew was ...
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My California Chapter

I left NYC in April 2021 to begin my private equity career in LA, not knowing the transformative experience that awaited me. Now, I am back home in NYC to begin a new chapter of my life and career (more on that soon). Before I turn the page, I ...
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Pattern Recognition

I took a linguistics course my freshman year of college, where the professor one day handed a sheet of what basically looked like hieroglyphics to decipher. Although the professor didn’t mention it, the first step to solving that ...
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Pursuit of Happiness

It has been over a year since my last blog post. As a creature of habit, I did not forget about this blog. Let’s just say life has been interesting with so much change and ups and downs that it has oftentimes felt like a rollercoaster, ...
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Korea Trip 2022

In late May, I took a 10-day trip to South Korea for the first time in 5 years. The last time I visited Korea was after my college graduation in 2017, so it had definitely been a while! My sister recently graduated from high school (you read ...
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Year 1 in LA: POV from Former New Yorker

April 1, 2021 was the day I moved to LA. I remember anxiously sitting in the lobby of my NYC apartment at 3am with my luggage, awkwardly making eye contact with the doorman while waiting for my Uber to JFK. Whenever I make a big, life changing ...
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