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Priya Raman

Quant · trading desk

Priya reviews every model the way a trading desk does, cell by cell, and the courses teach you to build ones that pass.

  • Teaches in English
  • On Waypoint since July 2025
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Verified May 26, 2025

Financial modelingNov 2 · 6 seats left

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4.5

4,182 ratings

About Priya

Priya has spent 12 years in finance

Priya has built risk models on a trading desk for eight years, and three start‑ups she advises raised money on them. She began at an asset manager and spent two years on a bank's risk team.

Now

Quant

A trading desk, since 2018

Before

  1. Risk analystA bank2016–2018
  2. AnalystAn asset manager2014–2016

Checked by Waypoint

13days, four checks

  1. Identity

    We matched a passport over video

  2. Current role

    The trading desk confirmed her eight years

  3. Work sample

    Two quants reviewed a risk model she built

  4. Sample lesson

    Twenty learners rated it 4.6

Sample lesson

10 min

“Discounted cash flow”

Rating from twenty learners

4.6 out of 5

Lesson one is freeFinancial modeling

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Courses

What Priya teaches

Three courses and 45,320 learners so far. Priya teaches all three in English, with subtitles in 12 to 16 languages.

Cohorts

Learn with Priya in a live cohort

Thirty learners start on the same Monday, bring the week's work to a live review with Priya each Thursday, and finish together on a Friday you can see before you book your seat.

Live cohort

Financial modeling

Mon, Nov 2 to Fri, Dec 11

6 weeks · $89A live review each Thursday

6 of 30 seats left

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4.5(4,182 ratings)

What learners say about Priya

By course

  • 3 weeks ago

    “I raised my prices in week two, and the course paid for itself within a month. Priya does not let a neat spreadsheet hide a guess from you.”

    Nate G.

    Python for finance

  • 2 months ago

    “It changed how I prepare for any conversation about money. I walked into my salary review with a number, and I walked out with it.”

    Chloe M.

    Financial modeling

  • 4 months ago

    “Short lessons, real homework and a project that somebody reads and answers. I have not found that on any other course I have paid for.”

    Hannah O.

    Financial modeling

  • 3 months ago

    “I used what I built in module three in a real investor meeting last spring. Nobody found a hole in it, and I knew where the holes would have been, because the course had made me dig every one of them myself first. We closed the round in June, and two of the investors asked which consultancy had built our model. I had built it myself, at my kitchen table.”

    Zara H.

    Pricing what you build

  • 1 month ago

    “Useful, but it assumes a software business. I run a bakery, so I translated half of the examples into flour, rent and staff hours.”

    Raj K.

    Python for finance

  • 2 months ago

    “A lot of theory for a course sold as practical. The second half is better than the first, and it is where the exercises and the project start.”

    Steve W.

    Pricing what you build

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