One of the reasons that I did not glue this part to the last course,
to the M and A's course,
is that because although the video part is quite short,
just a week in general format.
But, it does take a lot of time on your side.
And that is why,
I perfectly understand that when you reach this point,
you're really eager to complete the specialization to get a certificate and then say,
"Well, I did it."
You guys are close but it still takes some time,
which is about the same as the amount of time
that you've devoted to all the previous courses,
because you have to do a lot of work by yourself.
So, please realize that it's not the thing that you can do in a day or two.
Not only because of the need to accumulate a lot of information,
digest that and then to put it in a certain format,
but because sometimes it takes the need to
take a pause and then rethink what you did once again,
and maybe once again, and then once again.
Like I said, all the projects that I did in
my consulting experience and including the one that
I'm doing right now that I mentioned before on fintech,
it takes a lot of time to just
rethink and put yourselves back in the shoes of the investors,
and then once again, and once again, and once again,
and then you come up with something that is understandable,
full of sense and really is engaging for the people.
Now, the next thing which is although quite trivial but I will remind that,
that Capstone Project employs
all your understanding.
And by understanding here,
I mean not only understanding as a word,
but all the content of the specialization,
understanding more in the finance that we're completing right now
in just a few minutes at least in my presentation.
So, it is really a cumulative thing and it's up to
you to see what is linked to a project more directly and what is more indirectly.
You don't have to really,
like I said before in the previous episode,
to really take all these pieces, all these stages.
You don't have to put all these capital markets, MPVs,
majorly accounting issues or M and As,
but instead, this is your understanding.
So, your choice of what to include and what not to
include is also a very important choice
that now can be made by you on the basis of all the knowledge,
skills, models, and the experience you've gained throughout this specialization.
And then finally, I would say that the Capstone Project is fun.
Now, I'm not mocking at you,
it does involve a lot of work but the final deliverable.
The funnier it is,
but the funnier in an advanced way, the better.
The better for you,
the better for your peers,
then the better for all the understanding of finance that now is being
transmitted to the audience by way of the specialization.
Now, I wish you all great luck in this project.
I know that throughout the specialization you guys put a lot of time,
effort, resources, attention, work, patience.
So, you've done a great job on that.
I know that is just one thing that is between you,
the successful completion of the specialization and this moment in time.
So this is one final effort.
But this is a winning effort because this
is really a piece that allows you to feel reality in
a much better way than you could otherwise pretend to
feel if you just read some article or you
just covered some of the work that has been done by others.
This is something that you will be doing,
you will be completing and that is why it's so valuable.
And now, like I said,
fortunately or unfortunately, I have really mixed feelings.
Whenever I complete the course and especially such a big piece as this specialization,
I feel sort of sad frankly,
because I have to say goodbye to you guys.
And I have been with you for a long time,
and I thank you all for what you did,
and I wish you all good luck in whatever you do. Thank you.