Carrie Sun

Carrie Sun was born in China and raised in Michigan. Her first book, Private Equity, is “a riveting, thoughtful memoir” which “surfaces deeper questions around what it means to be successful in America” (Fortune). In it, Carrie tells the story of how she became the sole assistant to the billionaire founder of one of the most prestigious hedge funds in the world—and what that high stakes, high pressure environment did to her physical and mental health. It’s a brilliant exploration of how our current system of work is failing to empower us, and what it would take to create a new system together.

Private Equity has been hailed as “stylish” (The New Yorker), “insightful” (Booklist), and “wonderful” (Jay Caspian Kang, The Loneliest Americans). New York Times bestselling author Stephanie Danler says that “Private Equity is a young woman’s reckoning, set at the summit of money and power that asks the most universal of questions: how much of ourselves do we owe our family and work, and how do we find the courage to make our days our own?” Mychal Denzel Smith, author of Stakes Is High, writes, “Private Equity gives us an opportunity to reflect on our own relationships to work, and to think about how we might make a different way in the world.”

Carrie holds an MFA in creative writing from The New School and a double BS in math and finance from MIT. She lives in Jersey City with her husband.