Alex Grodnik
Head of Podcast Operations
American Public Media Group
Education
Lehigh University
B.S., Finance
2009UCLA Anderson School of Management
M.B.A.,
2017Podcasts
44:23230: What It’s Like to Launch a Fin-Tech Start-Up w/ Alex Grodnik, PayClub & Grod Media [Main T4C episode]
Alex Grodnik is a co-founder at Payclub -- a next gen banking platform for Gen Z. Payclub allows you to create an infinite number of groups with friends to help manage and budget money together. Alex is also the founder of Grod Media, a company that produces podcasts to market..
Career Path
Interview Highlights
“I applied for 50 times the amount of jobs that anyone else applied for and sent hundreds of more emails than anyone else. And I got to have a job because of that.”
Best Career Advice
“If you want to do something and you want to do it bad enough, then you can make it happen.”
Career Challenge
“I was working in investment banking, and it started to hit me that I didn’t really like this job, which was a hard thing to do because I’ve worked my whole life to get there. I was making lots of money. These jobs pay you six figures your first year out of college, so society is saying that everything is going right. But internally I wasn’t fulfilled.”
Skills
Financial Modeling, Financial Analysis, Valuation, Investment Banking, Private Equity, Corporate Finance, Restructuring, Mergers & Acquisitions, Capital Markets, Data Analysis, Digital Media, Fixed Income, Bloomberg, Media & Entertainment, New Media
Professional Interests
Jason Hirschhorn, Julia Boorstin, Sony Pictures Entertainment, McKinsey & Company, UCLA Anderson School of Management, Alpha Epsilon Pi Entrepreneurs, Park City High School Alum, Lehigh University
