Day One Since Launching

Hello there - Buyside Hub has officially launched, welcoming a significant amount of Finance professionals onboard.

But as with everything new, there’s always some chaos in terms of launching and onboarding folks. If any problems arise, do not hesitate to reach out to [email protected] for support.

So thank you all for your continued patience as we work towards building a great platform.

We’re going to be launching a weekly/twice-a-week newsletter where we cover:

• The Latest on the Buyside Hub Board

• The Newest Jobs We’ve Added on Buyside Hub

• Any Other Key Buyside Hub Updates

This will include talking about the hiring market, bonus season, layoffs, and what we’re hearing from boots on the ground sources.

But first we want to make sure you’re all set up with Buyside Hub and submitting compensation data, or joining the paid plan, so you can have full access to the platform:

A Refresher on getting full access

Once you open your account on Buyside Hub you get immediate access to 1) Our Job Board and 2) Our LBO Model Template (It’s at the bottom of our home page)

So in order to get full access (access to our comp data, culture analysis and the message board) you can either contribute a) verifiable buyside data (for 12 months of access) or b) sell side comp data (temporarily, for access through March), or join a monthly or annual plan depending on your needs.

The contribution section will ask for the basics - your firm, your city, base, and bonus. Not every field is required, but we want to understand compensation, $ by location, and hours worked. The writing about culture is tied to your firm, but is not tied to your compensation contribution. These are totally separate and is by design.

While there’s an AI element to reviewing comp data, there’s a human stamp of approval and it has to pass the smell test. That’s why we ask for your LinkedIn or investment team bio page (all 100% anonymous) - so we can verify the compensation data faster and with more confidence. Given the human element, your access to the full platform isn’t approved immediately, it needs to be verified. So hang tight, but we will review it in under 24 hours.

As a platform, we’re trying to build a solution where folks can immediately know the median comp of how much a NYC Private Credit VP gets paid, or what the comp of a solid Hedge Fund Analyst looks like. So your contributions need to align with that communal goal.

What’s happening on Buyside Hub:

1) I’m doing an AMA:

Getting Comp Datapoints and Jobs up for you guys are the easier parts - the harder part from a day one and day two standpoint is getting the message board going.

If you have any career or credit or investing questions for me, feel free to interact with this AMA.

If you want to post anything topical on the board, please feel free to do so. We have community standards similar to other platforms, but I’ll try my best to let folks have a fluid conversation.

2) The Most interesting jobs on Buyside Hub so far:

The Buyside Hub job board is going to be fluid and everchanging. But here’s some of our current favorites:

• Apollo is hiring a Syndication Strategy Associate

• Adams Street is hiring a Primary Investments Associate

• Golub is hiring a BSL Workout Senior Associate

There’s plenty of other interesting roles on the job board as well, from firms like Ares, Antares, Blue Owl, Blackstone, BlackRock, and PIMCO.

3) We’ve onboarded a bunch of folks:

Thank you all for hopping on. I greatly appreciate it and thank you for the patience if you were one of the few folks that experienced hiccups along the way.

This has been fundamentally the hardest thing I’ve done in my professional career. It’s not like studying for a test, or checking a box, this has been a grueling and unstructured experience. But I know something magnificent can come out of this.

Like all Platforms that have a social aspect, or a data collection aspect, every day will become better than the day before. Every day this platform is live, the more datapoints we’ll have for folks.

So despite all the headaches in setting this platform up, I’m very encouraged by how day one went and am excited for the future.

Talk next week,

Harry