Finance had some crazy times in NYC right after the housing bubble burst... friends would go to parties with color-coded wristbands for if you were hiring or looking to be hired.

I went to one of those. It was hilarious.

Back in the day I went to first Tuesday and those with badges for VC/Investors got swamped.

I managed to nervously pitched to one guy and thought "he looks familiar" looked down and saw his name badge was a single word "rothschild" :-)

He looked like Nathan Rothschild (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nathan_Mayer_Rothschild) who was the UK's banker during the Napoleonic wars