The coaching youdidn't inherit.
Competitive early careers in finance and consulting have always run partly on informal coaching: a parent who worked in the industry, an older sibling who did the internship, a network that already knows how these interviews work. First-generation and low-income students usually don't have that. Firstbound is built to be it.
Has the network
First-gen
Who this is for
First-gen and low-income college students pursuing competitive early careers, who are strong candidates on paper but haven't had anyone walk them through what these interviews actually look like.
Why it's built this way
Generic prep content assumes you already know what you're bad at. Firstbound starts by figuring that out, then builds a path around it, the same way a good coach would, instead of handing you a textbook and a fixed syllabus. And we never assume you know the insider vocabulary. If a term needs explaining, we explain it.
Anyone can compete for these careers with the right preparation —not just the students who grew up around them.
From the founder
Built by the person who needed it.
Arrived at Cornell
First-gen, full financial aid, no idea what a finance club was.
Five semesters
What took classmates one semester took five. Every rule learned the hard way.
The trading desk
Two years trading USD interest rate options at a bulge bracket bank.
Firstbound
Left to build the rulebook nobody handed him.
Arrived at Cornell
First-gen, full financial aid, no idea what a finance club was.
Five semesters
What took classmates one semester took five. Every rule learned the hard way.
The trading desk
Two years trading USD interest rate options at a bulge bracket bank.
Firstbound
Left to build the rulebook nobody handed him.
Kody started Firstbound because he lived the problem. He arrived at Cornell as a first-generation student with no idea what a "finance club" or "consulting recruiting" even was, and spent his freshman year piecing together an unwritten system everyone else already seemed to know.
He holds a B.S. in Computing and Information Science from Cornell University, and spent two years as an interest rate options trader at Wells Fargo before leaving to build Firstbound full-time. Outside of work, he reads sci-fi and philosophy, plays chess, and splits his downtime between the gym and video games.
Be ready before the deadlines hit.
Launching August, before fall recruiting season. Waitlist members get first access.