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Private Equity: A Memoir
by Carrie Sun
This was a memoir by a person who worked as an assistant to a hedge fund manager / billionaire for several years. It wasn't boring, but I struggled to understand the author's perspective by the end of the book. She went from saying she loved her job to saying she was so burned out by the end that it affected her health, but the path from start to finish wasn't clear at all - the concrete examples she did give were things like receptionists not helping her with expense reports and IT not doing their job correctly, which seemed pretty mundane. Never being able to ignore an email or take time off is clearly tiring, but that would have been the case at the start as well. She claimed she accepted the role with no interest in the pay or lifestyle, but included so many detailed descriptions of lavish gifts, parties, wardrobe etc. that it wasn't clear why she took the job if not that. There was a lot of corporate jargon, details about which stocks were up or down, and whether people used the font Calibri.
I think the author is good at painting a vivid picture and keeping the reader engaged, but besides the fun of a peek into someone else's day-to-day, there wasn't much else to come away with.
I think the author is good at painting a vivid picture and keeping the reader engaged, but besides the fun of a peek into someone else's day-to-day, there wasn't much else to come away with.