Hey everyone, Im Tyrus Burton a senior accounting student at MS State University. I’m graduating this December with my accounting degree and am currently mapping out my next steps. My short-term plan is to either transition straight into a full-time role in Audit then Transaction adivosyr/Financial Due Diligence or pursue a Master of Science in Finance (MSF) with a focus on breaking into investment banking. Both routes are mainly to gain hands on deal experience. Long-term, my ultimate ambition is in ETA and building a small holding company. I fully recognize that building a holding co isn't a quick or easy. This is a long term vision I have for my life. Something I want to have by mid 30s-40s, I'm 22. Right now, my main priority is structuring the early phase of my career around gaining knowledge, deal experience, and operational understanding needed to eventually execute that vision. As I finalize my decision between stepping straight into the market versus doing an MSF to position for IB, I’d love to hear from this community: 1. Career Positioning: For those who came through corporate finance/IB, how well did that deal exposure prepare you for your first acquisition? 2. Pathways: Would you recommend jumping straight into full-time finance/accounting roles now, or leveraging an MSF program to pivot directly into boutique IB to get deal experience? 3. Backgrounds: I’d love to hear your own stories what did your early career look like before you made your first acquisition or started thinking about doing so? I appreciate any feedback, advice, or shared experiences!

For Instantly.ai cold email outreach, how do people address email verification? Instantly has native email verification but I found MillionVerifier which is much simpler pricing and cheaper per verification. I've been verifying every email send but that becomes costly at scale and am wondering if thats the right approach or if theres a way to take calculated risk with email, verifying some but not others. @Jed Morris how do you handle email verification with instantly.ai outreach?

In Searcher School we have gone over how to use Instantly in tandem with Claude Code to do enriched cold email outreach. However there is a burgeoning strategy amongst general cold outreach to use AI workflows along with enriched data to deliver personalized outreach per email (and therefore per business). I would imagine this would be a significant advantage when done right especially with cold email success rates declining. I am wondering if anyone has successfully implemented this workflow and/or if this is something worth discussing in the next call.

Does anyone remember which cold outreach recording goes over spinning up the gmail accounts/domains for them to be properly seasoned for email campaigns? Traveling soon and figured this would be a good thing to have going in the background.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/brandonkochkodin/2026/03/30/how-trumps-sba-quietly-pulled-the-rug-on-small-business-investors/