I 'm planning the next round of live seminars for Drou Academy, and I want to build them around what you actually want to learn. Vote for your top 3 (or drop a comment if you want something not listed)! 🚀 Startups & Fundraising (new — tied to my upcoming book, Angel Investing and Venture Capital Playbook) 1. What Investors Are Really Evaluating When You Pitch 2. Term Sheets Decoded — SAFEs, Convertible Notes & Series A Preferred Stock 3. Cap Tables & Dilution — the Ownership Math Every Founder Must Know 4. Startup Valuation Demystified — Market, Income, Cost & the Hybrid Approach 5. Building a Data Room & the Art of Financial Storytelling for Fundraising 6. Exit Strategies — M&A, IPO, and Beyond Career Prep 7. What I Wish I Knew Before My First Wall Street Interview 8. Live Modeling Test Walkthrough — a real case study, start to finish 9. Breaking Into Credit Analysis vs. IB vs. PE (Q&A / panel style) Valuation & Investing 10. What's a Startup Actually Worth? (Options Pricing, DCF & Market Methodology) 11. DCF Mistakes That Get You Fired in an Interview 12. Comps vs. Precedent Transactions — when each one lies to you 13. Reading a Cap Table Like a VC Credit & Debt Markets 14. How Banks Really Decide Who Gets a Loan (inside a credit committee memo) 15. Distressed Debt Investing 101 — what happens when a company can't pay 16. Reading a Covenant Package Like a Lender 17. LBO Debt Structuring — senior/sub/mezz stacks in a real deal 👉 Comment with the numbers of your top 3, or react with 🔥 on the ones you want most. The topics with the most votes get scheduled first — and a couple may turn into paid deep-dive workshops or tie into the launch of my new book.

🚀 Investment Banking Financial Modeling Masterclass I: LBO Financing 🚀 Want to learn how investment bankers, private equity professionals, and leveraged finance teams evaluate acquisitions and build institutional-quality financial models? Join me for a live, hands-on, 2-day Financial Modeling Masterclass where we will build a complete Leveraged Buyout (LBO) model from scratch and then apply it to a real public company. 📅 Session DatesSaturday, June 20, 2026 | 1:00 PM – 3:30 PM ESTSaturday, June 27, 2026 | 1:00 PM – 3:30 PM EST 💰 Tuition: $195🎓 Drou Academy Certificate of Completion awarded to all participants who complete the program. Day 1 – Build the LBO Model from Scratch We will start with a blank Excel spreadsheet and build a fully integrated LBO model used by investment banking, private equity, and credit professionals. Topics include: ✅ Financial Modeling Best Practices✅ Assumptions & Drivers Page✅ Transaction Sources & Uses✅ Purchase Price & Financing Structure✅ Debt Schedules & Amortization✅ Income Statement Modeling✅ Balance Sheet Modeling✅ Cash Flow Statement Modeling✅ Cash Sweep Mechanics✅ Model Integrity Checks & Troubleshooting By the end of Day 1, you will have a fully functioning institutional-quality LBO model. Day 2 – Live Investment Banking Case Study On Day 2, we will randomly select a publicly traded company and test whether it can support an LBO transaction. Topics include: ✅ Investment Thesis Development✅ Operating Assumption Building✅ Base Case Analysis✅ Downside Case Analysis✅ Debt Capacity Assessment✅ Equity Return Analysis (MOIC & IRR)✅ Sensitivity Analysis✅ Discounted Cash Flow (DCF) Valuation✅ Investment Recommendation & Key Risk Assessment This is not a theoretical course. Participants will work through a real-world transaction analysis exactly as investment banking and private equity professionals do. Who Should Attend? • Investment Banking Professionals• Private Equity Professionals• Credit Analysts• Commercial & Corporate Bankers• MBA & Finance Students• Equity Research Analysts• Corporate Finance Professionals• Entrepreneurs & Investors

Please note that the pre-launch seminar, “Angel Investing & Venture Capital Playbook,” has been moved to May 20 due to a scheduling conflict with the Seton Hall University Graduation Ceremony taking place on May 18. The seminar will be held live at 12:00 PM (EST) / 7:00 PM Cyprus time. Thank you for your understanding, and I look forward to seeing you there. Warm regards, Professor Drou