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Finance Bro Mass Delusion

The Fund: Ray Dalio, Bridgewater Associates, and the Unraveling of a Wall Street Legend by Rob Copeland

September 7, 2024 by Pooja 3 Comments

Ray Dalio became globally famous as the head of an innovative hedge fund and his Principles, which he purported would lead to inevitable success when followed. But behind the scenes at Bridgewater Associates was a bizarre, dysfunctional workplace culture. I vaguely remember hearing about the utter weirdness of Bridgewater Associates before, but Wall Street is not really an area of interest for me. I picked this book up though because of this review by J, which whetted my appetite with promises of crazy workplace drama […]

Filed Under: Non-Fiction Tagged With: #biography, Business, finance, Non-Fiction, Rob Copeland

Pooja's CBR16 Review No:90 · Genres: Non-Fiction · Tags: #biography, Business, finance, Non-Fiction, Rob Copeland ·
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I just want to see what the performance reviews look like

The Fund: Ray Dalio, Bridgewater Associates, and the Unraveling of a Wall Street Legend by Rob Copeland

August 23, 2024 by J 2 Comments

Like the delightful Marie Kondo, I love mess. Especially if it’s someone else’s. Copeland tells the origin story of Ray Dalio, hedge fund phenomenon turned self-help guru. Though an indifferent student in school, Dalio was locked in at his gig as a caddy for the wealthy where he made the connections that led to the establishment of Bridgewater Associates. At first, Dalio obsesses over building a kind of Grand Unified Theory for investing that accounts for the vagaries of geopolitics. Once he has successfully codified […]

Filed Under: Featured, Non-Fiction Tagged With: non fiction, Rob Copeland

J's CBR16 Review No:1 · Genres: Featured, Non-Fiction · Tags: non fiction, Rob Copeland ·
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