There are a few reasons I couldn’t put down Private Equity, the new memoir of former hedge fund executive assistant Carrie Sun that is making waves for its entertaining and exhaustive detailing of the ins-and-outs of assistant work.
For one, there is the lingering question over who exactly she is writing about. Specific names of people and firms in Sun’s book are anonymized, so I can’t know for sure. But if you follow the venture capital and hedge fund worlds closely, it’s hard to miss the common threads between Sun’s boss—referred to as “Boone Prescott,” the founder of elite hedge fund “Carbon,” in the book—and Chase Coleman of Tiger Global.
