""you were told no a hundred times,""
""You were told that you were never going to be good enough and you had to get better and you had to work harder.""
""Each one of those times where someone said no - it was almost a challenge. The harder it was, the better it was going to be in the end.""
Lizzie Reed leads Goldman Sachs' US equity syndicate, the team that has priced more than half of global IPOs in recent years. Alisa Wood is a partner at KKR and co-chief executive officer of KKR Private Equity Conglomerate, overseeing one of the flagship businesses for the $686 billion asset manager. Reed draws on lessons from the soccer field to guide leadership and decision-making in high-pressure capital markets. Wood trained as a professional ballerina before studying political science at Columbia, learning to overcome repeated rejection, to view setbacks as challenges, and to rely on rigorous preparation and mastery of craft, which informed her path into private equity.
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