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After Berkeley
After graduation, Steve Metter moved to New York to work for Morgan-Stanley as an investment banker for several years. Subsequently, he moved to Hawaii and made the islands his home.
When asked what brought Steve Metter to the state, he said, "I loved it. I loved the people and New York was all about transactions, cutting edge, making money and as soon as you're done with a transaction, you're kind of done. Hawaii was all about relationships from what I understood because I had an older brother that lived here, and it was beautiful. I mean it was beyond my description, and so I wanted to live in a beautiful place and start a career."
MW Group Ltd.
Steve chose to be a realtor realizing the career opportunities in Hawaii being in the tourism, military, and real estate industries, and he had prior experience with the latter. He worked initially as a commercial broker before meeting Mike Wood who would become his partner in their real estate business.
"I met my partner and he had some experience in development and so he and I became friends. He went to Cal, he was President of the Cal Club, that's how I met him, and I trusted him and since he was kind of starting out and I was starting out, we shook hands and that handshake has been in place for 16 years."
Steve said their relationship was mutually beneficial despite the age gap-Mike was 22 years his senior-and this rapport have helped them through the tough times.
"He was a mentor, a brother, I was teaching him things, and I was learning from him, we were completely experimenting with different things. I had a finance background that I earned in New York. He was a good communicator and he had some loyal investors, we brought different skills and it's really worked out very well and it was not easy. I mean we had our backs to the wall often in growing a business."
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