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The Fund: Ray Dalio, Bridgewater Associates, and the Unraveling of a Wall Street Legend
Current price:
$32.00
Publication Date: November 7th, 2023
Publisher:
St. Martin's Press
ISBN:
9781250276933
Pages:
352
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Description
The unauthorized, unvarnished story of famed Wall Street hedge-fund manager Ray Dalio. An instant New York Times bestseller!
Ray Dalio does not want you to read this book.
Late last year, when the billionaire founder of Bridgewater Associates, the largest hedge fund on the planet, announced that he was stepping down from the company he started out of his apartment nearly 50 years ago, the news made headlines around the world. Dalio cultivated an aura of international admiration and fame thanks to his company’s eye-popping success, coupled with a mystique he encouraged with frequent media appearances, celebrity hobnobbing, and his bestselling book, Principles. In The Fund, award-winning New York Times journalist Rob Copeland punctures this carefully-constructed narrative of the benevolent business titan, exposing his much-promoted “principles” as one of the great feats of hubris in modern memory—in practice, they encouraged a toxic culture of paranoia and backstabbing.
The Fund is a page-turning, stranger-than-fiction journey into a rarefied world of wealth and power. It offers an unflinching look at the pain so often caused by the “radical transparency” Dalio has described as a core tenet of his recipe for business success and a meaningful life. Drawing on hundreds of interviews with those inside and around the firm, Copeland takes readers into the room as former FBI director Jim Comey kisses Dalio's ring, recent Pennsylvania Senate candidate David McCormick drinks the Kool-Aid, and a rotating cast of memorable characters grapple with their personal psychological and moral limits—all under the watchful eye of their charismatic leader.
This is a cautionary tale for anyone convinced that the ability to make lots of money has anything at all to do with unlocking the principles of human nature.
Praise for The Fund: Ray Dalio, Bridgewater Associates, and the Unraveling of a Wall Street Legend
“This is a terrific dagger of a book packed with cringey detail...one of the better books ever written about Wall Street.…The Fund is the perfect rage-read.”
—New York Times Book Review
“At last, the era of the billionaire philosopher-king has a defining book. The Fund is a taut, nonfiction thriller."
—Bryan Burrough, author of Barbarians at the Gate
“A classic American story about the most famous man on Wall Street—or the person he seems to be. The Fund manages to both shock and entertain at the same time.”
—Philipp Meyer, bestselling author of American Rust and The Son
"The most explosive, mind-blowing business book I've ever read—and the most fun, too."
—Bradley Hope, co-author of the New York Times bestseller Billion Dollar Whale and Pulitzer Prize finalist
“Devastating…full of delectably awful anecdotes.”
—Bethany McLean, bestselling author of The Smartest Guys in the Room
“It’s a great book…everyone should read it!”
—Kara Swisher, co-host of the podcast Pivot
“Writing with droll aplomb, Copeland takes a torch to Dalio’s reputation as a Wall Street savant…the result is a hugely entertaining depiction of unbridled wealth colliding with unhinged folly.”
—Publishers Weekly
"A closely observed investigation...Copeland's history of the firm benefits from deep sourcing, drawing on new on-the-record interviews, internal documents, and multiple leaked e-mails...[offering] a vivid snapshot of Dalio's psyche."
—The New Yorker
“An unsettling exposé of a leading investment fund.…A vivid portrait of soul-killing micromanagement in a ruthless corporate setting.”
—Kirkus
"A jaw-dropping narrative...Financial reporter Rob Copeland has written a book that blows apart the mystique of Bridgewater and the man at its center. The Fund manages the improbable task of living up to its strapline of 'unravelling' a Wall Street legend."
—Financial Times
“Weird.”
—Fortune
"Copeland's gripping book exposes the cult-like culture at Ray Dalio's Bridgewater Associates."
—Spear's
"An epic page-turner...reads like the slimmest of thrillers."
—The Messenger
“A hedge fund horror story.”
—The Australian
"A page-turning portrait of a bully and bullshit artist—and, more fundamentally, a damning indictment of the elite compulsion to conflate wealth with genius."
—The Lever