Peter Yu
Product Manager at GMAT Pill
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Experience
Financial Modeling Teaching Assistant at Mergers and Inquisitions / Breaking into Wallstreet
September 2010 - Present (3 years 6 months)
Created merger model reference guides on MSFT acq Yahoo case study
Answered 1000+ financial modeling questions over 3+ years
www.mergersandinquisitions.com (Over 200,000 unique visitors per month)
www.breakingintowallstreet.com (Over 20,000 customers from 81+ countries)
Training on: Accounting, 3-Statement Modeling, Valuation, Discounted Cash Flow, Merger Models, LBO
Models
Contributed several articles to M&I blog site
Co-Founder and Product Manager at GMATPill.com
June 2009 - Present (4 years 9 months)
Co-founder of internet business in GMAT prep market
Top-rated online video membership course for ambitious MBA candidates taking the GMAT exam.
15,000 unique visitors per month
+4,000 customers from 94 countries
Products include:
- "GMAT Pill HD" iPad App in Apple App Store, plus iPhone and Android versions
- GMAT Practice Pill Platform (1000+ Questions, 1 million student responses)
- Full Length 3-hour Practice Test with timing analytics
Video Course Products include:
- Sentence Correction Pill
- Critical Reasoning Pill
- Reading Comprehension Pill
- Data Sufficiency Pill
- Problem Solving Pill
- Integrated Reasoning Pill
Product Management
- Managed development and iterative design process of our signature Practice Pill Platform, an open online
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Q&A platform with >20,000 users & >750,000 recorded responses, as well as iPad/iPhone/Android apps
- Hacked code and user experience to creatively incentivize users to share on social media (similar to
Dropbox) and to get users to sign up for our email newsletter in exchange for access to more questions.
- Tools & Languages: Front-end and back-end coding via PHP/MySQL on Zend Framework, Javascript,
HTMl/CSS, Facebook APIs and Ruby on Rails; Google Analytics/Webmaster/Adwords,
Business Development & Marketing
- Managed strategic partnerships in online niche community (GMATClub) as well as brand presence in
forums, Facebook/Twitter, etc.
- Used creative techniques to get featured in Bloomberg Businessweek, Harvard Business (alongside Khan
Academy), and Mergers & Inquisitions
Other
- Hosted startup networking events and advised other startups, including one that got into StartX
- Recruited and trained summer intern for various ad hoc projects (social media marketing)
Analyst at Devon Value Advisers
April 2008 - April 2010 (2 years 1 month)
M&A Advisory for $800M Ceramics/Advanced Carbon Materials, $7B Biochemicals company, and $900M
Specialty chemicals company
Valuation Methodologies including LBO analysis, add-on combinations, precedent transactions, comparables,
return on capital.
Worked with CapitalIQ, Bloomberg
M&A Associate at Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi
September 2007 - April 2008 (8 months)
Advisory on cross border transactions predominantly in the technology/energy space
Associate Consultant at Mars & Co.
October 2005 - September 2007 (2 years)
Experience consulting for venture capital (VC) client investing in Ethanol and digital media, and also two
months of work experience abroad in Shanghai. Industry projects span energy, internet/digital media,
automobiles, consumer products.
Skills & Expertise
E-commerce
Mergers & Acquisitions
Consulting
Venture Capital
Investments
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Digital Media
Valuation
Strategic Partnerships
Education
General Assembly
Product Management, 2013 - 2014
Stanford University
BA, Economics, Computer Science core, 2001 - 2005
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Peter Yu
Product Manager at GMAT Pill
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