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.

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9 hours
Author

Bill Keenan
Narrator

Roger Wayne
Audible release date

Dec 8 2020
Language

English
Publisher

Gildan Media
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B08PHHJ38N
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Unabridged
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Audiobook
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Listening Length	9 hours
Author	Bill Keenan
Narrator	Roger Wayne
Audible.ca Release Date	December 08 2020
Publisher	Gildan Media
Program Type	Audiobook
Version	Unabridged
Language	English
ASIN	B08PHHJ38N
Best Sellers Rank	#102,536 in Audible Books & Originals (See Top 100 in Audible Books & Originals) #73 in Banks & Banking (Audible Books & Originals) #499 in Banks & Banking (Books) #501 in Banking (Books)

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Kevin Cosgrove

Awesome book!

Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on May 12, 2020

Honestly not the best written book in the world, but it really isn't supposed to be. It's a hilariously written take of a former investment banking associate into life in investment banking. Highly recommend for anything either in finance or thinking of getting into it!

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Good fun, though becomes a little repetitive

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on August 5, 2020

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I suppose it's reflective of the job to be fair. The first 10 chapters are fantastic, the second 10 a little slower but still good, then the last ten more of a drag if I'm honest. Still enjoyable but lost the flair of early on, hence misses out on the 5 stars.

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Pretty accurate portrayal of life as a junior banker.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on May 29, 2020

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What might seem like exaggeration is actually on point and probably like fiction to anyone outside the industry... would have been interesting to learn what his exit strategy was for all of those who sympathise with his lack of fulfilment.

Fardin

Great Read

Reviewed in Australia 🇦🇺 on January 15, 2022

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Very well written and an accurate account of what it is like to work at an investment bank. Highly recommended.

Alfonso Rodhas

Great memoir

Reviewed in Mexico 🇲🇽 on August 17, 2020

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Amazing read full of insight into the world of finance and banking in a funny and relatable way. Kept me engaged and couldn't put it down!

McMurrab

Keys to the Game

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on April 9, 2020

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Wall Street memoirs are a dime a dozen. And then there's Discussion Materials. First off, it is screamingly funny. It is also, for those only glancingly acquainted with the world of investment banking, a palatable education in what on earth that actually means. Further, despite the peculiarities of life on the 44th floor at 60 Wall Street, readers will find plenty of hilarious reassurances that office life is, in ways large and small, the same the world over. But beyond that---way beyond that----beyond the nutsiness-bordering-on-slapstick, beyond the insanity, run deep currents of wisdom and clarity and fury and---most of all---sadness that make this book not only about something arcane but also about something profound and universal: the search for passion and meaning in the world of work. It is a neat trick to capture all that and to do it in a way that is at once a ground-level, eye-of-the-hurricane view AND the view from some sort of ironic remove. Keenan is the participant and the reporter, the inmate and the asylum visitor, the specimen and the forensic psychologist. It really doesn't get much better than this.

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