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#12 Bethany McLean: The Smartest Guys in the Room

Investing by the Books

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I'm a Young Investment Analyst, but I'd Never Wanted to Be a Young Investment Banker

I'd never wanted to be a young investment banker. I don't even think i knew what investment banking was. They were not happy years for me, but it turned out to be a very useful detour. understanding some of how this stuff works is very useful if you're going to do this kind of journalism. It really shows up in the book as well. You can create doing amas is essentially a narrative with numbers. Y, that's true. Yes. And that er later, you came to fortune. That's really interestingn and you, you,You were an investment analyst, right? It was the beginning of your career. So when i got out of college,

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