My name is Sam Shiah. I'm the founder of Wall Street Mastermind. I started my career at Deutsche Bank, then moved to Morgan Stanley's Technology Investment Banking Group.

This led me to a private equity job at GI Partners, which then opened doors to some of the hottest venture-backed tech startups at the time.

At Square, which is now called Block, I ran a financing strategy for their international business to drive the growth that helped the company go public eventually in 2015. Then at GitHub, I was the first finance hire by the CFO, and I helped position the company to be bought by Microsoft for $7.5 billion in 2018.

However, it wasn't always this way. I actually grew up in a middle-class family, and there were years when we struggled financially. 

But once I landed that first investment banking job, everything changed. It gave me opportunities I never imagined possible, and allowed me to build a multi-million-dollar net worth.

My family and I never have to worry about money again.