EAN: 9781526634726

PRIVATE EQUITY - CARRIE SUN KARTONIERT (TB)

A gripping memoir of one woman's self-discovery inside a top Wall Street firm  and an urgent
indictment of privilege  extreme wealth  and work culture When we meet Carrie Sun  she can't
shake the feeling that she's wasting her life. The daughter of Chinese immigrants  Carrie
excelled in school  graduated early from MIT  and climbed the corporate ladder  all in pursuit
of the American dream. But at twenty-nine  she's left her analyst job  dropped out of an MBA
program  and is trapped in an unhappy engagement. So when she gets the rare opportunity to work
at one of the most prestigious hedge funds in the world  she knows she can't say no. Fourteen
interviews later  she's in. Carrie is the sole assistant to the firm's billionaire founder. She
manages his work life  becoming the right hand to an investor who can move mountains and
markets with a single phone call. Eager to impress  she dives headfirst into the firm's culture
which values return on time above all else. A luxury-laden world opens up for her  and Carrie
learns that money can solve nearly everything. Playing the game at the highest levels  amid the
ultimate winners in our winner-take-all economy  Carrie soon finds her identity swallowed whole
by work. With her physical and mental health deteriorating  she begins to rethink what it
actually means to waste one's life. A searing examination of our relationship to work  Carrie's
story illuminates the struggle for balance in a world of extremes: efficiency and excess 
status and aspiration  power and fortune. Private Equity is a universal tale of self-invention
from a dazzling new voice  daring to ask what we're willing to sacrifice to get to the top-and
what it might take to break free and leave it all behind.

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