How Not to Apply for a Job in I-Banking
UPDATE: YouTube has removed the video; we’ve replaced it with a Veoh clip below, or you can download the file here.
UPDATE 2: Turns out that serving up the enormous video file blew the roof off our server. We’ll let Veoh host for now, and re-host it if they take it down.
Aleksey Vayner is having a bad day. Imagine you’re a recruiting director at an investment bank. Aleksay’s resume come across your desk. The ‘07 Yalie’s stuff seems normal enough, until the link to a video at the end. Twenty-four hours later, you’re the laughingstock of New York, the newest viral sensation. We’ve been forwarded his stuff a couple times, and the email suffixes tell the whole story: Greenwich Capital Markets, Credit Suisse, Wachovia Securities, JP Morgan, Lazard, on and on and on.
Subject: FW: one more resume, u must see video
Subject: FW: this is pure gold.
Subject: True story- On line resume of a candidate for our training prog ram
“Too funny not to share” … “This guy must be the pride of Yale” … “You can’t make this sh** up” … “Don’t you guys go trying to recruit him – I’ve added myself to cs’s yale recruiting team. He’s ours” …
Here’s a link to Vayner’s official site (what’s with the weird must-be-over-18 warning?), and his original cover letter and resume. [Ed. note: We rushed this online as soon as we got it, only to notice Dealbreaker.com had it a little while ago. The headline overlap was accidental, seriously.) UPDATE: Read more of IvyGate’s wall-to-wall coverage of Aleksey Vayner!
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October 6th, 2006 at 5:23 pm
How Not To Apply For A Job In Banking, Revisited.
Well, that was a close call. For a few moments we were worried you might miss out on Aleksey Vayner’s now world-famous (or at least Wall Street famous) video “Impossible Is Nothing.” His site went down and the video…
October 6th, 2006 at 5:23 pm
IF YOU WANT TO FIND OUT MORE ABOUT THIS GUY, THEN READ YALE’S RUMPUS NEWSPAPER EDITION MAY 2002, page 12-13 to be precise. Aleksey used to go by “Alex Garber”
October 6th, 2006 at 5:24 pm
How Not To Apply For A Banking Job
This black clad young man is Aleksey Vayner, Yale student and prospective investment banker. He recently applied for a job at a major investment bank (at least one) and included this video resume entitled “Impossible Is Nothing.” It’s set up…
October 6th, 2006 at 5:43 pm
http://www.yale.edu/rumpus/archives/pdf/rumpus_may02.pdf
October 6th, 2006 at 5:45 pm
You might want to take a look at Wall Street Folly’s post; they had theirs up a few hours before Dealbreakers; they have some funny commentary on the video, his modeling stuff and found his investment site.
http://wallstfolly.typepad.com/wallstfolly/2006/10/who_is_aleksey_.html
October 7th, 2006 at 10:32 am
Impossible is Nothing. This guy is over the top. I put him on a shirt so you can give respect where do. How many of you would have the balls to promote yourself in that manner? I feel embarrased for him but respect the guts it took to do that. Get gear at http://www.cafepress.com/popdetriti
October 7th, 2006 at 11:36 am
jordan bass for president, that article is superb
October 7th, 2006 at 11:46 am
Who’d waste their $$$ on crap like that? Those are really lame T-shirts. No imagination. No creativity. Just an attempt at a quick buck. At least the Lucy Gao T-shirts were funny. These are just dumb.
October 7th, 2006 at 3:27 pm
If you look at the bricks before they are “broken”, you can see a line precisely where they split apart after the oh so massive blow.
October 8th, 2006 at 9:35 am
Another Ivy League Blog
Some months ago, I linked to IvyLeak, a website all about Ivy League gossip. Which football team is losing in the least embarrassing fashion, which kids does McKinsey like best, where is Lacoste making its comeback, and of course which…
October 8th, 2006 at 3:51 pm
he’s gay, right?
October 8th, 2006 at 6:26 pm
according to the official yale facebook and phonebook he’s now class of 2008. Yale probably forced him to take one more semester off because he’s crazy. Also I’ve never heard of him.
October 9th, 2006 at 10:24 am
c’mon is this for *real*?? tell me it’s a joke and it’ll be a lot funnier–right now, it’s fairly tragic
October 9th, 2006 at 10:43 am
This is great! This is a joke, right? I like the credits at the end: “Primary Spotter…” Priceless!
October 9th, 2006 at 1:48 pm
Not a joke…I’ve met this guy through friends…hysterical!!
October 9th, 2006 at 4:09 pm
It’s interesting in the video that all his “achievements” (Bench Press, Brick Breaking) his face isn’t shown. I’m curious if he even did these.
October 9th, 2006 at 4:47 pm
This is f*cking hilarious. Check out the resume, cover letter and article; nice formatting skills Alex!
October 9th, 2006 at 4:49 pm
Did you check out his resume? He has a typo on it!! Maybe he should have spent less time on the video and more time proof reading.
October 9th, 2006 at 5:04 pm
so i know aleksey from yale. he really lives this stuff. he has reported to me that he modeled for UnderArmour among his other talents. Anyway, my vote it to get him kicked out so everyone won’t think all Yalies are like this! he was 06 but then delayed graduating, now maybe again. and ps, his major doesn’t exist at yale and his classes at som are from a graduate school, which undergrads can only take with special permission. oops.
October 9th, 2006 at 7:42 pm
Nice typo on resume: At Vayner Capital Management, he advises clients on risk-aDverse investment strategies.
Um, it’s risk-averse, a-hole. NO JOB FOR YOU!!!
October 10th, 2006 at 6:36 am
He’s paid everyone off, and isn’t actually good at any of the things he says he’s good at.
In the video of weight lifting we don’t see him actually lifting any weight by himself. Every time he “lifts”, one or two or even THREE trainers are lifting with him (and struggling mightily with the heavier weights).
In the video of skiing, he apears to be about to fall at the end of the clip (if it’s really him at all).
In the video of dancing, he screws up several times, and is clearly doing it with a paid professional who is able to cover for him.
In the video of tennis, we have no evidence that he is a good player, since we only see him, not the result of any of his shots. And the speed, of course, is on his say-so.
Finally, in the brick-breaking, all the bricks break exactly in the middle, as if they were sawed in half and glued back together. When you *really* break bricks, they all break slightly differently, with jagged edges. In other words, his final stunt, like all the others, is planned fakery.
October 10th, 2006 at 8:06 am
Also, I don’t think the weight he put on the video matches up with the actual weight on the bar… He either had 4-45s a side or 5-45s a side (I can’t remember). Neither add up to 465 lbs.
I think this guy is just a regular old humdrum Sociopath.
October 10th, 2006 at 9:29 am
Shall we start a petition to have ol’ Aleksay deported?
October 10th, 2006 at 9:43 am
Maybe related to the Star Wars Kid???
October 10th, 2006 at 10:22 am
Michael Jordan is on the Wheaties box only because they couldn’t afford to pay for the likeness of Aleksey Vayner.
Aleksey Vayner doesn’t play tennis, because “play” implies that it’s a game. Aleksey “fights you tennis.”
Aleksey Vayner’s toenail clippings could balance the budget, secure peace in the Balkans, and prove the Reimannian manifold of spacetime at age 6. Too bad Aleksey Vayner has evolved beyond toes and was born with titanium stubs at the end of his feet.
Aleksey Vayner killed bears. With his bare ass. Thousands of times. He calls this “breakfast.”
The chief export of Aleksey Vayner is Aleksey Vayner.
Aleksey Vayner’s Youth Empowerment Strategies is so effective at fundraising that The Human Fund no longer gets any donations.
Aleksey Garber met Boris Vayner in the Tibetan mountains, fought him with poison-tipped machetes, and then took exclusive rights to his surname.
October 10th, 2006 at 11:36 am
I think he has severe personality disorder, bordering pyschosis. He is ill… We should stop making for of this poor boy who will soon be kicked out of Yale…
October 10th, 2006 at 12:00 pm
October 10 round-up
David Lat has much more detail on the $46 meal-skipping criminal case; and the St. Petersburg Times reports Ralph Paul was acquitted because his defense attorney misrepresented to the jury the legal standard, and the…
October 10th, 2006 at 12:19 pm
if he was going to waste his time doing this, I think it could’ve been a LOT funnier. nice try though. i’ll be waiting for a new and improved version.
October 10th, 2006 at 2:00 pm
This guy is like every other douchebag who goes into i-banking except he has mad karate skills.
October 10th, 2006 at 4:36 pm
Hey come on guys — I’m sure we will all see him in his own 2am “paid advertisement” motivational T.V. show — Success is in the Mind: Aleksey Garber will show how to think that you are a success. Whether or not you are doesn’t matter!!!
October 10th, 2006 at 4:49 pm
HA!
October 10th, 2006 at 4:57 pm
I hope this kid is on the Yale football team.
October 10th, 2006 at 6:05 pm
Hans Zimmer should sue his ass for copyright infringement.
But seriously, I just hope that Mr. Vayner will be my facebook friend!!!
October 10th, 2006 at 8:46 pm
This guy is really good-looking. I jacked-off to him twice when I saw his video. I pretended that my balls were the bricks he karate chopped. I turned up the volume and I came when I saw him bench five plates. I pretended I was sucking his motivational cock while his “primary spotter” was giving me a dirty sanchez. This guy is priceless. Thanks for the mammaries, Aleksey.
October 10th, 2006 at 8:47 pm
i kiss you!
October 10th, 2006 at 10:31 pm
This is a fake!
October 10th, 2006 at 11:32 pm
Regarding the weights on the bar, he is including the bar itself so 10*45=450 + 15. I think the bar is 25 though? It’s all mute because each spotter is lifting 125 (they are visibly wincing), so that’s 475-375 = 100… He’s benching the weight of an adolescent girl.
This guy has a lot of money to throw around doesn’t he? The video looks well put together, and he even bought new spandex and karate gear just for it. Do you think he got into Yale on academic merits? Didn’t GW Bush go to Yale? Hmmm…. Ivy League remains impressive.
I think what’s most distressing about this entire video is that in the terms of success as he defines it (mental transformation, knowing what you want, believing you can achieve it), he is a complete failure. You may agree that if his goal was to become a world renowned jacka$$ he is extremely successful, but I doubt this is his goal. If he has gone through the ‘mental transformations’ he defines as necessary for success, then why is he making a video full of false truths? I don’t think he knows what he wants either. Does he want to be a ballroom dancer, a karate kid, a body builder, a tennis pro or what? Regarding believing you can achieve these things, maybe as he watches it himself he believes he did those things without fancy editing/spotters/or other trickery, and in that case he’s deluded and needs help. In any case, when he seriously reflects on how he defines success, he may commit suicide.
October 10th, 2006 at 11:35 pm
This guy’s so tough when santa gave him coal he ate it and pushed out diamonds! What a wanker nobody does weights like that this tool deserve everything he gets. Australia Rocks
October 10th, 2006 at 11:38 pm
My big questions is: If he’s such a successful “CEO” and advisor extraordinaire, why does he want to bother to work for someone else? Actually, I have many other questions. Like how big his penis is, he didn’t show it in his video.
October 11th, 2006 at 5:19 am
Love the “$4-billion dollar” typo. Also love the fact that although he apparently managed this PF, he does not quote Bloomberg, Reuters, or any other informational service as a computer proficiency. What a freak.
October 11th, 2006 at 6:29 am
It seems he strives to become the real world Patrick Bateman. (Is it a coincidence that Bateman is a fictional Yalie?)
October 11th, 2006 at 10:40 am
This is amazingly funny and sad at the same time. All of the various comments on all of the various links support this irony.
If this isn’t fake, this guy will never get a real job nor might he have to:
just imagine the paychecks that the various companies might send Aleksky so as to keep it out of the courts.
While they don’t have to hire him, they also didn’t have to forward for the whole world to see. Is this a violation of any hr rules from a compliance perspective?
Well, gotta go run and do 150 lb incline dumbell presses…
October 11th, 2006 at 12:49 pm
If he gets hired he’ll be horribly out of compliance.
October 11th, 2006 at 12:51 pm
Who the hell does this clown think he is, Bill Brasky?
140 mph serve? Andy Roddick serves about that hard. Those numbers aren’t inflated are they?
October 11th, 2006 at 1:22 pm
Love to see what Trump would do to him on The Apprentice
October 11th, 2006 at 1:39 pm
Patrick Bateman went to Harvard, then Harvard Business School. Paul Allen was part of that “whole Yale thing.”
October 11th, 2006 at 2:11 pm
this tosser is the real life version of america psycho dicks. do you think anyone would actually employ this guy on wall street? i would never work with him.
October 11th, 2006 at 2:41 pm
Typical olympic bars weight 45lbs so his weight amounts on the video are correct (though it’s likely not him doing it). That crap about serving 140MPH is no way real. That swing he was doing wouldn’t get about 90MPH; probably less.
October 11th, 2006 at 2:45 pm
I don’t know that there are legal grounds for this dude to sue the companies. It depends a lot on whether he put it on a public server of if he included the video itself as an attachment. It sounds like he used a public server, so he’s the one putting himself out there for ridicule, not the i-bankers forwarding his stuff.
October 11th, 2006 at 4:07 pm
Wow! This guy is a Bruce Wayne wannabe, except instead of growing up to be Batman, he’ll be the Joker.
October 12th, 2006 at 1:26 am
Wow! What a strait shooter. I want him to come work for me and manage my risk ADVERSE (averse dip shit) clients. Seems like the Yalie is slightly narrow shouldered in his “interview” to be putting up big time weight. I’m a big guy, I come no where close to his “leadership”, but I am sure that I could punt his ass through the uprights from 40 yards out…you know what…I think I’ll do that…I’m going to PUNT Aleksey Vayner between some yellow poles, knock some bloody sense into him…You reflect well on your school, bigboy. Oh yea, it doesn’t make much sense to thank someone for asking you a question in an interview, BEFORE you’ve given a responce.
October 12th, 2006 at 2:23 am
Forget I-banking, the long-lost son of Bill Brasky was born for sales!
October 12th, 2006 at 8:40 am
And the title of his article sure looked familiar to me. Maybe that’s because he took it from here:
http://www.bwater.com/PDFs/wires/bwpm052405revised.pdf#search=%22selling%20beta%20as%20alpha%22
He even mentions Bridgewater in the article, but gives no formal notation of sources. What a complete D-Bag!!
October 12th, 2006 at 12:17 pm
I’ve just been onto his MySpace website at http://www.myspace.com/alekseyvayner
That site is PURE CLASS!!!! Ha! Ha! Check out the slide show.
October 12th, 2006 at 12:46 pm
This guy is horrific with his ego, BUT BUT I agree with many of his comments. Short of the dancing with the stars routine, I think he will do fine in life. Shit, he’s already been in front of millions with this silly video, someone will pick him up. My guess is the guy will be a millionaire in three years. No one will be able to stand to be arond him, but what the hell.
October 12th, 2006 at 1:02 pm
HA! HA!
Check out his MySpace at http://www.myspace.com/alekseyvayner
The slide show is hilarious!!
October 12th, 2006 at 10:40 pm
Veynor also appears to be falsely claiming to hold the Certified Financial Planner (CFP) designation on his resume. A check to the Certified Financial Planner Board of Standards (http://www.cfp.net/search)finds no Aleksey Vayner in the database.
October 12th, 2006 at 11:31 pm
His CFP designation is is the process—many CPA hopefuls put this on resumes when they try to pass themselves off as “consultants” without the CPA.
October 13th, 2006 at 5:17 am
BWAHAHA, yalies don’t know the difference between ’strive’and
‘thrive’.
HAHAHA11eleventyone!!!
October 13th, 2006 at 5:55 am
That 495 would have been more impressive if he didn’t have 20 friends helping him.
October 13th, 2006 at 1:19 pm
8th DAN?????!?! Anyone know what that means? That’s beyond master. It should take a few decades to get to this level. Like, 30 or 40 years of dedication.
October 13th, 2006 at 1:54 pm
May I suggest a psychiatric evaluation?
October 13th, 2006 at 2:56 pm
How Not To Get A Job
http://www.forbes.com/home/careers/2006/10/12/leadership-careers-YouTube-lead-careers-cx_ll_1013vayner.html
October 13th, 2006 at 3:02 pm
Out of morbid curiousity, I clicked on the resume link. What is immediately clear is that his athletic skills (on a resume?) will come in handy when shoveling his way through all that BS. It may also help him jump out of the ever deepening hold he’s created for himself. Why doesn’t he put that he runs ultramarathons as well?
It’s curious that Mr. Vansky doesn’t include where his frankenpaper was printed. Not that we couldn’t already tell he didn’t write the thing. One thing he forgot to add to his list skills is plagarism. He’s bad at it. Not only does he kill the flow of everything he copies, he also copies verbatim and indicates the source:
AV: “Strategies that are able to produce consistent alpha often include hidden beta exposure. For example, convertible bond strategies are often short credit duration and long equity volatility; merger arbitrage strategies utilize short equity puts; global macro funds have duration and currency
exposures; and long-short portfolios often have residual long equity exposure.”
From http://singapore.pimco.com/LeftNav/Viewpoints/2005/Alpha+Beta+May+2005.htm:
“Strategies that are able to produce consistent alpha often include hidden beta exposure. For example, merger arbitrage strategies utilize short equity puts, global macro funds have duration and currency exposures, convertible bond strategies are often short credit duration and long equity volatility, and long-short portfolios often have residual long equity exposure.”
Mr. Vansky curiously removes the concluding sentence of the quoted paragraph and puts it in his previous paragraph attributing it to only the first of the four authors.
AV: “When the beta is identified, the investment’s residual return is simply the total return minus the beta, multiplied by the market return. Bob Litterman at Goldman Sachs [...] explains simply that “the average value of the residual return is the historical alpha of the product. The volatility of the residual returns is its active risk (B. Litterman, GS. All Alphas Are Not Created Equal, 2004).” Because extensive frequent historical returns are often not available for hedge funds however, it makes the task of separating alpha from beta more difficult.”
From: http://www2.goldmansachs.com/client_services/asset_management/institutional/pdf/active_alpha_article_2.pdf
“Once beta is identified, the investment’s residual return is simply the total return minus the beta, multiplied by the market return. The average value of the residual return is the historical alpha of the product. The volatility of the residual returns is its active risk. Generally, for products such as hedge funds, private equity and real estate, frequent historical returns are not available, making the decomposition into market and active risk more difficult.”
There’s more, but I believe the point is made and the proverbial horse is dead.
Frank
October 13th, 2006 at 3:07 pm
I like how he’s pumping iron in the gym and says “physical strength is tied into mental strength.” I’ll bet Stephen Hawking’s ready to discuss quantum physics with this arrogant, fake doofus.
October 13th, 2006 at 3:44 pm
FYI, the dedication to Radomir Kovacevik at the end of the video is to a real person. Radomir was a successful judo athlete, coach, and all around good person who died a few months ago. To be honest, a lot of Aleksey’s BS sounds like the kinds of things Radomir used to say. Only Radomir didn’t sound like a complete ass when he said this stuff. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radomir_Kovacevic explains a bit about this douche bag’s inspiration.
October 13th, 2006 at 5:13 pm
Firstly i agree with a lot of what he said about success.
But the video was certainly quite cheesy! Only bit that looked good was the tennis and dance. His 140lbs dumbell press was shaky, i’d say he got 2-3 reps on that set. The bench was an absolute joke, he was struggling with two plates. I can’t imagine him benching 315 for 1 rep on his own. Let alone 495lb. For example Ronnie coleman can only bench 495 for 5 reps, JUST.
October 13th, 2006 at 6:01 pm
I’d fight Aleksey Vayner.
October 13th, 2006 at 9:14 pm
Alexei,
You silly, silly pile of dung…
ok…we’ve got you on here talking shit…now explain yourself….
explain the charity
explain the investment firm
explain the cia bit, the mafia crap, the nuke wast crap, the dead guys in the caves in tibet, the Dali Lama, teh 495lbs bench (i lift, alot you weak fuck..i watched you struggle with 140lbs bells, never actually pressing them clean, never completing a full rep…yet you want me to believe 495? I want to see it CLEAN…I’ll let you get a lift off from 1 spotter, and allow 2 spotters hands off…but I want to see the bar come down to a stationary chest with a pause…and a clean press with a lockout…when you can give us that…and make sure we see your dishonest little face…you can say you press 495….but hey if you actually measure your strength with a bench press…you are a loser…can I hear about your…
1. deadlift
2. squat
3. Clean/press
4. 3 mile run time
Im sure that all those numbers are simply amazing
(deadlift…I’ll bet he claims 6 plates, (12 total) =’s 585lbs in reality he could not pull 315 for more than 5 reps and 405 he could not get up more than 1 time
Squat (he will claim 600+ and yes.. I bet you can see him in the gym with 400+ lbs on the squat rack…doing some form of weird standing knee bend moving up and down a total of 3 inches
clean/press (forget it…he does not do them…he uses a bench press to impress people, but with that frame…. he could not get 135 up to save his life)
3 mile run…not that he would have the intestinal fortitude to complete it…but I’mm guessing a solid 25 min
oh fuck it why bother.
Shithead I know you…and men world wide know you as well…a silly little turd of a boy who knows he lacks true character, ability, and integrity, so you lie…you lie so much you believe most of the crap you sell yourself. Your real life and abilitys are nothing to rave about so you lie, you make up fantastic things, you do this to feel superior, to feel alive, when the truth is you have done nothing gone no-were, been no-one, and never will. you claim to be so strong both physically and mentally, when the truth is that when really tested, you will fail, not because you “can not” do the task at hand, but because you lack what it takes to actually strive to acheive anything, you have no heart, no passion, and no damm guts.
Even now as you sit reading this you are not taking the words to heart…you are looking for ways to slam what is written here, and above all appear to be something special, something amazing, something we mere mortals cant totally understand.
insted do this…apologize for being a shithead…blame it on a mental condition you are seaking to heal
make restitution to those you have defrauded, through your bullshit charity, healing injuries with shark piss, wild Yak spooge and whatever phony bullshit you have tried, and any of the other countless lies you have tried for personal gain
and last (this is the biggy that will really suck ass) apologize to the ones you have hurt, embarrased and disapointed.
once you have done that…go out, find a stranger….and start a conversation….talk with them for 10 min and dont say a fuckin thing about yourself…find out about them, and then…if they ask….tell them about you…and tell the complete honest truth
and when you hear how pathetic and sad the truth really is…purchase a small pistol from a local drug dealer…you should not spend more than $100, buy 1 small box of the correct ammo for the weapon (hollow points are best here, wadcutters will work well, and no need for mag rnds) load the weapon, place the buisness end against the base of your skull pointing up through your head at your forehead
pull the trigger and turn your sick mind into a fine pink mist
(if you could figure out a way to castrate yourself and completly prevent your seed from ever polluting this world in case you fuck this up…that would make alot of us feel alot safer too…thanks)
October 13th, 2006 at 9:51 pm
Nothing here less delusional than the business except he hasn’t found paying employment. A future crook seeking to join a community of crooks.
BTW, Patrick Bateman was St. Paul’s.
October 13th, 2006 at 9:53 pm
The weight does in fact match up, the fact is you have to add 45 pounds for the bar itself.
October 14th, 2006 at 3:31 pm
we have dumbells like the ones he pressed on the video at my gym. they only weight 40kgs each and have a hard foam coating on each plate.
October 14th, 2006 at 4:40 pm
Strange… I actually know him. I met him at Yale and knew some of his claims were “stretching” it just a little bit (or a lot). The funny thing is he *can* lift a lot of weight – just not *that* much. He can play tennis well – just not *that* well. He is an impressive person actually, but “impressive” just isn’t good enough for some people. It’s unfortunate that he thought lying was the only way to succeed. I’m sure this isn’t the last that we’ll hear from him.
October 15th, 2006 at 12:12 am
I think he should kill himself…that story will really entertain us all…and get rid of a real shit-4-brains
October 15th, 2006 at 8:34 pm
I know a guy like Aleksey that inflated his resume during the internet boom and was able to get top positions (and options) at startups and split the company equity with the other heads. He’s my former lab partner but I know not to mix my business with him… he’s built a faulty castle for himself and his inflated resume.
BTW. Finance firms have at least one competent tennis player that can judge that Aleksey’s form isn’t satellite pro or national junior caliber. He’s a kid. He’ll learn.
October 15th, 2006 at 8:56 pm
This is how Christ came to be murdered…How many people who’ve made hateful comments about this guy after watching a stupid video actually know him and can speak from their experience? Any? So what, the guy exaggerated or lied. Real mob mentality. I thought that the Yale students and alumni were afraid of the association..but I must have been wrong – unless the integrity level demonstrated in their commentary is what they were striving for..Mind your own careers. Make your own entertainment. Get back to work.
October 15th, 2006 at 9:19 pm
He may be full of it, but he will inspire a lot of dishearted peeps around the world.
October 16th, 2006 at 1:18 am
he is a wanker! cheers!
October 16th, 2006 at 7:49 am
This video proves that the saying: “Nothing in excess” is true.
October 16th, 2006 at 7:53 am
This is why America is lagging behind. Aleksey will solve all our problems if given a chance. He can be sent to Afghanistan to find Bin Laden. Then, he and Chuck Norris can go to Iraq and win the war with the insurgents. Then, Aleksey will use his spit as the cure for AIDS. And Finally, Aleksey will bench press 605 pounds to win the Olympics for his home country, Alekseystan. Yes, The world is safe now.
October 16th, 2006 at 11:13 am
To say that you lot went to such a prestigious place of education you really are narrow minded. The guys clearly a fool, yet everyone here seems to want to point out this over and over again. “Derrr you’re not benching that much, you can’t serve 140 mph”. You honestly think he doesn’t know that? Christ, live and let live, just laugh like I do….
October 16th, 2006 at 11:26 am
I love this guy. And some of you commenters are a bunch of haters. You’re all just jealous of Alexei’s self confidence, so instead of giving credit you raise your noses and criticize. So while this guy moves forward, hopefully reaping in the benefits of the many law suits hes entitled to begin, you guys will be disgruntled spectators making fun of the next person who takes a risk in life.
October 16th, 2006 at 12:20 pm
anyone else get the irony here?
http://www.myspace.com/alekseyvayner
October 16th, 2006 at 2:10 pm
Mr. Vayner’s cover letter essay to UBS on Alpha vs. Beta return analysis was largely plagiarized from this – http://singapore.pimco.com/LeftNav/Viewpoints/2005/Alpha+Beta+May+2005.htm
October 17th, 2006 at 4:37 am
Aleksey has now got his own entry on Wikipedia so, in some way, he’s actually “made it”.
October 17th, 2006 at 10:45 am
The serve was obviously in kilometers (about 85 mph). He probably measures his manhood in centimeters and only shows the number.
October 17th, 2006 at 11:09 am
VIDEO – Alex Vayner – This is why you should not lie on your resume!
Okay, where to (even) begin. Aleksey Vayner is about to graduate from Yale and is pursuing a job as an Investment Banker. He (of course) puts his resume online and to get a jump…
October 17th, 2006 at 12:30 pm
You guys are just jealous. Alex is brilliant.
October 17th, 2006 at 4:31 pm
looks like aleksey can’t DANCE.
http://www.ballroomregistrar.com/stats/BU05/People/people-partial.php?person=172#172
October 17th, 2006 at 4:56 pm
http://www.yaledailynews.com/Article.aspx?ArticleID=33715
October 17th, 2006 at 5:40 pm
Under his “Publications” section in his resume, he listed some wackjob paper he stuck on the anyone-can-publish-anything-they-want-for-a-fee website lulu.com. What a tool!
October 17th, 2006 at 5:45 pm
I picked up on the silly bugger from an article in the New Yorker – its funny!! “must register hands as lethal weapons at airports…” This is great stuff – Cheers Big Ears from Saskatchewan.
October 17th, 2006 at 7:21 pm
I really hope he kills himself and posts a video of it on the web. Oh, I guess that would be kind of tough to do when you are dead. But then again, Impossible is Nothing!
October 17th, 2006 at 7:24 pm
Is this what they teach at Yale ?? and if he lifts 495 lbs, don’t you think he’d look twice as good as Arnold S ???? Hey man , Where’s all your muscles ??
October 18th, 2006 at 1:46 am
Ivygateblog rocks! You guys deserve some awards for outstanding journalism! Kudos all around.
October 18th, 2006 at 7:31 am
Donnie Deutsch has already been quoted (New Yorker) as saying he would hire this guy. I wonder if Donnie is also toking from the crack pipe of delusionality.
October 18th, 2006 at 8:53 am
The “interviewer” at the start is talking absolute nonsense. Is he by any chance one of the mocking Yalies who have been secretly recording Vayner’s historonics?
October 18th, 2006 at 9:18 am
This guy is the balls. He ranks right up there with Chuck Norris. Karate, dance, motivational speaker, is there anything he can’t do??? He is the head of a charity for fucks sake. I don’t think there are any legal implications of the forwarding of this resume either. It was in public forum. It was a pretty badassed video tho. The best was when he smashed the bricks with his bare hands, what a tool…
October 18th, 2006 at 11:46 am
I think I saw the katrena Looter in his video!
October 19th, 2006 at 1:14 pm
I’m probably a lot older than most of you guys posting, but I’m going to agree with Deutsch on this one.
Aleksey actually has every attribute it takes to be rich and/or famous (he’s already famous for at leat 15min) in this country. I’m sure most of the people posting on this blog are “normal”. You like to talk about sports, you do right by your friends, you’re polite even when someone is being rude to you, you’re all in all straight up cats.
But guess what? Pretty much all of those attributes are useless if you want to be rich in this country. To be rich…and not some b.s. 500k Wall St. job…but I mean really rich, you need to be a freaking lunatic. You are friend to nobody, you ‘re egocentric, you never take the blame, you offend everyone, in short, you just don’t give a sh!t. Really, to an extent most people who are ultra rich are sociopaths in some way or another.
So don’t hate Aleksey. Had there been all this electronic mumbo jumbo in the past 50 years, I’m sure Aleksey wouldn’t have been the first person to do what he did. It could have been worse, he could have been on Dateline’s Predator show.
October 19th, 2006 at 4:36 pm
In a cynical way Shawn may not be too far from the truth. However, even if true, this is not the kind of behaviour you want to encourage.
I for one would NOT want to hire an Aleksey.
October 20th, 2006 at 9:54 am
It’s a little funny to be honest; but you have to give credit where it’s due. And at the end of the day, he’s getting more publicity than any one of us, so he’s got a much better chance of being hired by someone than any of us do. The line used earlier about people with this kind of attitude is that he “dosen’t give a shit” – and that’s what will make him a lot more successful than any of us. Good on him.
October 20th, 2006 at 3:16 pm
The sad thing is that he is just an exaggerated version of so many businesspeople and entrepreneurs.
October 20th, 2006 at 5:02 pm
Some things to note.
1) Whoever hires this guy, I wouldn’t want to work for.
2) If he doesn’t give a shit what people think, why did he hire a lawyer to prosecute people that give a shit?
3) Why is he trying to wipe out the trail of evidence of his fakery and fraud?
4) You don’t need to be a lunatic to be rich and successful. You need to be talented, know your area of interest to great depth, and you need to be aggressive.
Anybody who hates this kid should pity him instead.
October 23rd, 2006 at 4:27 pm
this video just got published in the FT and I was very much looking forward to the hilarious spectacle but to be perfectly honest I dont see the problem, the guy just tried something different. You need to be pushy and arrogent to succeed in most places, especially new york. besides most merchant bankers are wankers
October 24th, 2006 at 3:00 am
How Not to Apply for a Job
Having worked in recruiting, I’ve seen my share of “interesting” candidate applications. From the Ivy League comes the latest example of how not to apply for a job. Yalie Aleksey Vayner created a video application to use for his search…
October 24th, 2006 at 9:33 am
I am reminded of the video essay to Harvard that Elle Woods made to get into law school on Legally Blond. “I object!”
I do have to say that he showed a lot of guts making this video and then attaching it, however if he actually could do all this stuff athletically when does he have time to work? He’ll be too busy using the corporate gym to actually make money
October 31st, 2006 at 5:39 am
You can take a horse to water – but only our dear aleksey can make it drink! I am pretty sure this guy can devide by zero as well
November 21st, 2006 at 10:07 pm
i recruit for Investment Banks in Sydney and i know that if that guy lived and worked in this market he would have to move interstate to get away from beer bottles being thrown at him fo being such a complete dickhead .applying making it sound like UBS needs a self serving moron like that working for them. they need people who are actually smart enough to know they dont need to take the “im good at everything” angle to get a look-in. what a fag. i cannot believe he actually went to all that effort, like did he actually think that shit woul work? my goodness that is incredible. were they gonna call him straight away and want to see him for an IV that afternoon? how can one person be such a freaking idiot!
November 28th, 2006 at 4:20 pm
This is great. At the least this guy had the nerve to think outside the box. I can see great leadership potential here. I would hire him.
November 30th, 2006 at 5:05 pm
I hope that Yale does the right thing and kicks him out. If he graduates, it will be a black mark on the university’s reputation. He should AT LEAST be required to do 500 hours of community service.
December 9th, 2006 at 2:54 pm
Don’t be too critical, this guy reminds me of most of the Generation Y Ivy undergrads I know. Here in grad school, I can ID many 18-30 year old girls and guys who are just as self-obsessed, performance coached (with all the requisite Kaplan, SAT coached, Guidance counselor, and Tony Robbins-like bullshit), and hyper ambitious as this ex-commie jackoff. And they say the fall of the Berlin wall was a good thing? Not in this case. The fact is, many of the BMW SUV driving, i-pod dangling from the ear, jimmy choo wearing, hedge fund manager wannabe’s that we go to school with are just as fucked up as this guy; they’re just one You Tube video away from being verbally impaled on a blog themselves. I say fuck him and fuck them (many of you who comment here) too! I just can’t wait until image search engines are perfected, then we can post an image into the search bar and find all of the old videos and thumbnails of wives, daughters, and girlfriends who match the photo from their mixers, Vegas weekends, and spring break trips when they blew a guy (and his frat brothers) on camera while too drunk to know it. That will be fun. And just think about all of the latch-key kids enrolled with us whose parents were out working to 7,8,9 at night to pay for our endowment bloating tuition while little Cameron, Connor, and Brittany were playing ‘pound a hole’ on the couch with the new Hi-Def on ‘autoplay’. Oh, I can’t wait to see those videos!!!!! Embrace the media age, people, the fun is just beginning.
March 8th, 2007 at 1:30 am
We have been programming our video resume software CVOne for more than a year now. And, we were not sure whether video resumes would ever really take off. Thanks to Aleksey it did. About the same time we wanted to launch. He is our secret mascot.
June 4th, 2007 at 4:56 pm
Although very strange I think what he did was very ballsy and at the same time innovative. Did it do him any good? Well lets see we are all standing around watching it. He has made himself a name perhaps that was his true intention to get attention. So who are the fools us or him?
June 16th, 2007 at 9:29 pm
He doesn’t have an ego!You guys just can’t recognize stellar confidence when you see it (note it’s in his video)have any of you actually thought that perhaps there are super over achievers in this world who can do a whole lota shit, and actually be really good at it? Don’t hate because all of your activities only relate to excessive use of drug paraphernalia, and maybe the blowing of air through some long hard cylinder shaped instrument.(get your minds outta there, though I’m sure many of you participate in this type of “blowing” as well). All the competition today causes grads to go extra lengths to show that they have that competive advan over the next shnooze, so what if non of what he’s talking about relates to the job he’s applying for, the video is creative as hell, and you all are just mad that you don’t possess his manly maverick like approach. Stop being so jealous, it’s giving you acne, and we all know that is so unattractive.
June 30th, 2007 at 9:02 pm
didnt W go to Yale? Alexy and Chimpy seem to share some macho, delusional personal affectations…
July 1st, 2007 at 9:25 am
Hugely, you are clearly not Ivy League. Stop reading our blog.
June 25th, 2008 at 5:29 pm
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