Discussion Materials

Tales of a Rookie Wall Street Investment Banker

By: Bill Keenan

Narrated by: Roger Wayne

A newly minted MBA recounts his first years as a Wall Street investment banker - unredacted.

Discussion Materials gives the listener an honest look at Wall Street from someone in the trenches. After graduating from Columbia Business School, Bill Keenan joined Deutsche Bank's investment banking division as an associate where despotic superiors (and the blinking red light of his BlackBerry) instilled low-level terror on an hourly basis. You'll join him in his cubicle on the 44th floor of 60 Wall Street as he scrambles to ensure floating bar charts are the correct shade of orange and all numbers are left-aligned, but whatever you do, don't ask him what any of it means. 

Leaning heavily on his fellow junior bankers and the countless outsourcing resources the bank employs, he slowly develops proficiency at the job, eventually gaining traction and respect, one deal at a time, over a two-year span, ultimately cementing his legacy in the group by attaining the unattainable - placing a dinner order on Seamless one Sunday night at work from Hwa Yuan Szechuan amounting to $25.00 (tax and tip included), the bank's maximum allowance for meals - the perfect order.

©2020 Bill Keenan (P)2020 Gildan Media

For my hubby

My hubby worked in investment banking so I ordered this book for him. He LOVED it!! It made for a great gift:) 5 stars!!!

Painfully Relatable

I didn’t do investment banking but I did do public accounting and the similarities are numerous and hilarious. And by hilarious I mean painful haha. This is a great satire on a broken industry. Very fun for those who have some financial services background or someone interested in learning about it

baller

was amazing and pretty much true to banking..... it's how you live it's a great listen to as well

Distilled realism

Funny, and brutal. He does an excellent job conveying and humanizing investment banking, in all of its false light. The connections between him an his colleagues, the mutual understandings, everything.