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02662aam a2200337 i 4500 001 8CF8FA16D86411EE9510A68C40ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20240302011431 008 230729s2024 nyu 000 0aeng 010 $a 2023026566 020 $a 0593654994 020 $a 9780593654996 (hardcover) 035 $a (OCoLC)1396974072 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d OCLCO $d OCO $d HQC $d OCLCO $d SILO 042 $a pcc 050 00 $a HC102.5.A2 $b S86 2024 082 00 $a B $a B $2 23/eng/20231127 100 1 $a Sun, Carrie, $e author. 245 10 $a Private equity : $b a memoir / $c Carrie Sun. 260 $a New York, NY : $b Penguin Press, $c 2024. 300 $a 339 pages ; $c 24 cm 520 $a "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 up 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 climb to the top--and what it might take to break free and leave it all behind"-- $c Provided by publisher. 600 10 $a Sun, Carrie. 650 0 $a Businesswomen $v Biography. 650 0 $a Finance. 650 0 $a Work-life balance. 655 7 $a Autobiographies. $2 lcgft 655 7 $a Biographies. $2 lcgft 941 $a 1 952 $l GBPF771 $d 20240302012144.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=8CF8FA16D86411EE9510A68C40ECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search