Private Equity A Memoir

Carrie Sun joined Tiger Global Management in the midst of the longest bull market in recent history. A graduate of M.I.T. with experience as a quantitative equity analyst, she reported to the firm’s founder, Chase Coleman. Together, they worked in the nerve center of Wall Street’s most covert investment firm.
 
Told by an ultimate insider-outsider, Private Equity is a rare, first-person look at the winners in our winners-take-all economy. An expertly drawn portrait of our new Gilded Age, Private Equity is an urgent, behind-the-scenes view into the structural and psychological forces underpinning contemporary capitalism. By pulling back the curtain on the billionaire investors and multibillion-dollar funds like Tiger, Sun exposes the drivers of unprecedented inequality in a new, more personal light. 
 
The deeper Sun reaches into the time-starved, luxury-laden world of Tiger Global, the less she begins to recognize herself. An immigrant from China who grew up in the Midwest, she mostly knew a world of 24/7 striving in which success was best measured by status and access to capital. It takes playing the game at the very highest levels for Sun to recognize her individual strength and her determination to abandon the life others told her she should live.

Carrie Sun is a graduate of MIT and its Sloan School of Management. She has worked on Wall Street since 2006, with positions at Fidelity Investments as a quantitative equity analyst, as well as at Tiger Global Management and Two Sigma Investments. She is a 2020 graduate of the New School’s Creative Writing MFA Program, where she studied with Brenda Wineapple, Honor Moore, and Robert Polito. She was awarded a Provost’s Scholarship and a research assistantship. In 2019, she won a merit scholarship to the New York State Summer Writers Institute, where she studied with Phillip Lopate. Her writing has appeared in the Washington Post and Vogue, among other publications. She lives in Brooklyn with her husband.