{"id":23970,"date":"2016-10-27T08:51:55","date_gmt":"2016-10-27T12:51:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wework.com\/creator\/?p=23970"},"modified":"2020-04-03T16:08:28","modified_gmt":"2020-04-03T20:08:28","slug":"40-40-peter-finkel-brings-home-real-life-experience","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wework.com\/ideas\/community-stories\/member-spotlight\/40-40-peter-finkel-brings-home-real-life-experience","title":{"rendered":"40 over 40: Peter Finkel brings home real-life experience"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Around the time Peter Finkel was born 42 years ago, his father Eliot started an investment firm called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.efinvest.com\/\">EF Invest<\/a>. Advising people on their personal finances has been in his blood since high school, when he and some fellow students won a stock market challenge sponsored by the <em>Los Angeles Times<\/em>. \u201cI was the only one that was obsessed,\u201d he says, laughing about how he had to \u201cpull along three friends.\u201d After college, Finkel hoped to join the family business. His father\u2019s response? \u201cGo try the corporate world for a while.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/ideas\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2016\/10\/Peter-FInkel-2-800x571.jpg\" alt=\"Peter Finkel\" class=\"wp-image-23973\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-pullquote\"><blockquote><p>A small firm like mine is like having a doctor or an accountant where they get to know you, and, in some cases, they kind of nudge you or protect you from yourself.<\/p><\/blockquote><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>After about a decade in banking, Finkel felt burned out. Despite being very proud of his investment research, he felt disheartened: \u201cI had grown up with my father learning about long-term investing, and here I am in the corporate world, and the bottom line for the quarter was all that mattered.\u201d So he worked full-time with his father while attending business school, where he learned the many tools needed to help run a small business like EF Invest. Now based in San Francisco, Finkel enjoys the flexibility that comes with making his own hours and being able to coach his two young sons\u2019 baseball teams. As for what he misses most about the corporate world, the \u201cwater cooler talk,\u201d he\u2019s able to get his fix at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wework.com\/locations\/san-francisco\/soma\">WeWork SOMA<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Photos: Nate Rivera<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Around the time Peter Finkel was born 42 years ago, his father Eliot started an investment firm called EF Invest. 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