Hello!

Welcome to Money Talks from Slate Money.

I'm Felix Salmon of Axios and I have read a really great page turning book called Private Equity and the author is

right here with me. Carrie's son, welcome. Thank you, Felix, for having me today. It's an honor to be

speaking with you. So welcome and introduce yourself.

Who are you?

I'm Carrie's son, author of the memoir, Private Equity, as you just said, Felix.

I was a quant.

Then I worked at a couple large hedge funds.

I quit the world of high finance a few years ago to get my MFA in

creative writing. And now I'm a full-time writer out with my first book. The book is called

private equity. It's great. We are going to talk about your time at the hedge fund. We're going to

talk about the pursuit of money and what kind of people

do it. We're going to talk about what happened to you, your, you're like long and varied

career, talk about trauma. We're going to talk about capitalism. It's a kind of juicy

conversation and it's all coming up on slate money.

So this is a memoir.

This is a memoir about you working for one of the more famous hedge funds out there, Tiger

Global, and your time there not actually as a hedge fund manager or even a

would-be hedge fund manager, but rather as the assistant to the hedge fund manager, as you say,

you went to MIT, you were a quant.

Explain to me how your career path kind of verged off the whole, you know, I'm going to become a

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