Doug Brunt
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
This is all sort of happening now.
We'll see whether this is happening.
I would love to see that.
Liar's Poker is an amazing book.
It's still read today.
Has not been made a movie, but it's his first book.
It was a breakout book.
He tells so many amazing stories of how he first started writing.
You know, he was working at Solomon Brothers and Wall Street and he writes, he has sort of a Jerry Maguire moment.
He gets this article published about how bankers are paid too much
And it goes in the Wall Street Journal.
And someone had sort of stuck their neck out to get him this job at Salomon Brothers.
So he comes up the elevator feeling like, I've written this.
I'm in the journal.
This is so exciting.
And the guy who got him the job is at the top of the elevator bay, like ashen, looking like, what have you done?
You can't do that.
You can't work here and do that.
You pick one.
So he ends up actually writing financial articles under a pseudonym for a while.