Private Equity: A Memoir by Carrie Sun
Rating: 4/5
As y’all know, I’ve been scooping up books on private equity/high finance lately, and boy, I’m enjoying it! My most recent reads include Kings of Capital and Going Infinite. Both of these books are very well documented accounts of real events around BlackRock (an investment firm) and FTX (crypto investment and brokerage co.) respectively. This time around, I wanted to pick something light and Private Equity seemed to have the perfect balance. It follows the journey of Carrie, a young MBA dropout from MIT who gets to work for Carbon, a secretive hedge fund, as an executive assistant to the CEO. It provides an insider account of how it works at the highest ranks of high finance. Keeping up with the demands of the CEO is a tough job, with tough demands, blurring the lines between life and work. All in all, this book provides a soft introduction for anyone who wants to understand how the world of investment works at the highest levels — Carrie describes how things works at Carbon, how the research is done, how the high-performance culture is groomed and how investment rationales are refined. I would highly recommend this book to any fresher about to start a job in finance.
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