Carrie Sun
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Carrie Sun is a Chinese-born American writer. She is most known for her memoir Private Equity,[1] in which she documents her experience working as a personal assistant for Chase Coleman III, the founder of Tiger Global Management.[2][3]
Early life and education
Sun emigrated from China in 1990.[4] She has a dual degree in mathematics and finance from Massachusetts Institute of Technology,[5] and graduated early,[6] and an incomplete Master of Business Administration at the Wharton School.[7][8]
In December 2020, she married Christopher Cerrone, a Pulitzer Prize finalist musical composer.[8]
Career
Sun has worked as an analyst at Fidelity Investments and Two Sigma,[9] earning around US$ 300,000 a year.[10] Eventually, she worked at Tiger Global as an assistant to the company's billionaire founder Chase Coleman.
In February 2024, Sun published Private Equity as a criticism to workplace culture, writing about mental and physical health, leading to occupational burnout.[11]
References
- ^ CHAPPET, MARIE-CLAIRE (2024-03-01). "Carrie Sun on writing the work memoir of the year". Harper's BAZAAR. Retrieved 2024-03-11.
- ^ White, Tiara. "From the lavish gifts to the flagrant waste: Here's what it's like to work for a billionaire hedge fund founder". Business Insider. Retrieved 2024-03-11.
- ^ Jenny, Zhang (15 February 2024). "Carrie Sun offers an inside look at being the right hand for a demanding billionaire". The Washington Post. Retrieved 2024-03-11.
- ^ Wiener, Anna (2024-01-20). "Portrait of the Artist as an Office Drone". The New Yorker. ISSN 0028-792X. Retrieved 2024-03-11.
- ^ Sun, Carrie (2018-02-01). "Can You Apply Data Science to Dating?". Vogue. Retrieved 2024-03-11.
- ^ Duff, Turney (2024-02-29). "Cocaine, Vegas, breakdowns – believe me, these Wall Street stories are true". The Telegraph. ISSN 0307-1235. Retrieved 2024-03-11.
- ^ Liu, Rebecca (2024-02-29). "Private equity review – an insider's account of high finance". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 2024-03-11.
- ^ a b Mandell, Judy (18 December 2020). "Carrie Sun was a couple of weeks away from moving to Virginia, and then she met Christopher Cerrone at a concert in Manhattan". The New York Times. Retrieved 2024-03-11.
- ^ Hirsch, Lauren (10 February 2024). "On our radar: A memoir from inside one of Wall Street's top investment firms". The New York Times. Retrieved 2024-03-11.
- ^ Sun, Carrie (2024-02-06). "Was Working for a Billionaire Worth It?". ELLE. Retrieved 2024-03-11.
- ^ Sun, Carrie (1 March 2024). "I was earning 6 figures on Wall Street, and then I crashed. Here are the warning signs I ignored". Stylist. Retrieved 2024-03-11.