Usually, from my understanding, search funds are started by recent M7 MBA grads, and my search fund was started by a HBS MBA grad (graduated 2017). I don’t know the industry the search fund is focusing on yet. To answer your other questions, I just graduated from a top 10 public state school (not a target though). I have basically a logistics internship otherwise and a couple finance classes + higher level math classes (thought I was gonna go to grad school for econ) and an economic major. I’ve been spending the past year learning the 3 financial statements/modeling and just finance/the capital markets in general.

My question doesn’t really have to do with how I’m gonna “break in” but more about what is appropriate, right now I’m just trying to get as much experience under my belt with modeling and learn on my own time in the process. I definitely am not trying to break into PE as I know how difficult it is but I was thinking that I might be able to land a good FP&A role or something like that during the spring and network from fall to spring as I have some connections in IB. In the end I just want to have a thorough understanding of finance as finance and economic policy are becoming increasingly intertwined, and I want to end up doing the latter. I don’t know how I will get there (possibly MBA after 2 years of work, as M7 MBA’s open up a lot of doors) but I feel like there’s nothing more valuable than learning the ins and outs of finance in the process on the way to my goal.