Like Michael Lewis\'s classic Liar\'s Poker , Jared Dillian\'s Street Freak takes us behind the scenes of the legendary Lehman Brothers, exposing its outrageous and often hilarious corporate culture and offering a "candid look at the demise of a corporate behemoth" ( Publishers Weekly ).
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He lives in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina.
Dillian is a graduate of the United States Coast Guard Academy and earned a Masters in Business Administration from the University of San Francisco.
He worked on the Pacific Options Exchange from 1999 to 2000, and was a trader for Lehman Brothers from 2001 to 2008, specializing in index arbitrage and ETF trading.
About the Author: Jared Dillian is the founder of the subscription-based, daily financial market report The Daily Dirtnap.
In his electrifying and fresh voice, Dillian takes readers on a wild ride through Madness and back.
More than $1 trillion in wealth passed through his hands, yet the extreme highs and lows of the trading floor masked and exacerbated the symptoms of Dillian\'s undiagnosed bipolar and obsessive-compulsive disorders, leading to a downward spiral that nearly ended his life.
Dillian rose from green associate, checking IDs at the entrance to the trading floor in the paranoid days following 9/11, to become an integral part of Lehman\'s culture in its final years as the firm\'s head Exchange-Traded Fund (ETF) trader.
I am insane ." As it turned out, at Lehman Brothers insanity was not an undesirable quality.
Nobody is willing to put in the hours I will put in.
But he was scrappy and determined; in interviews he told potential managers that "Nobody can work harder than me.
In the ultracompetitive Ivy League world of Wall Street, Jared Dillian was an outsider as an ex-military, working-class guy in a Men\'s Wearhouse suit.
Like Michael Lewis\'s classic Liar\'s Poker , Jared Dillian\'s Street Freak takes us behind the scenes of the legendary Lehman Brothers, exposing its outrageous and often hilarious corporate culture and offering a "candid look at the demise of a corporate behemoth" ( Publishers Weekly )
